The Impact of Task Variables on End-User Computing Configuration And its Success (Ⅱ); An Empirical Test

Abstract

This study used a survey-based field study of multiple organizations to

investigate the hypotheses postulated in the previous section. A field study

takes advantage of natural variation in organizational characteristics, which

would be extremely difficult to simulate in the Iaboratoryj Daft and Macintosh, 1981J. The companies included in this study were selected to assure a wide

variation of task factors (i.e., independent variables). This enabled us to test whether or not the independent variables have the predicted impact on the dependent variables (i.e., EUC success) [Daft & Macintosh, 1981; Hall etal., 1967J. The survey instrument was a questionnaire designed to collect the data necessary to meet the study objectives.