Adoption of Information Technology as a Mediator Between Institutional Pressure and Change Performance

Abstract

The adoption of information technology today is something that cannot be denied along with increasingly competitive business competition. On the other hand, institutional pressure to keep the organization in its performance target. In the literature there are three categories of institutional pressures, namely: Coercive Pressures, Mimetic Pressures, and Normative Pressures. The purpose of this study was to examine how the influence of institutional pressure on the performance of changes mediated by the adoption of information technology. The research target is one of the state universities in Indonesia with the object of research being lecturers, students and education staff. From the data collection process, 268 valid data were obtained. With the PLS-SEM analysis tool, the results of hypothesis testing indicate that there is a significant positive effect between Industrial Pressure and Information Technology Adoption of 16.377. While the relationship between Information Technology Adoption and Change Performance has a significant positive effect with a value of 4.544. The direct relationship between Industrial Pressure on Change Performance has a significant positive effect with a value of 6.251. While the relationship between Industrial Pressure on Change Performance mediated by Information Technology Adoption gets a value of 4.250 which means that the mediating impact also has a significant positive effect. This shows an important finding that the role of Information Technology Adoption contributes to the improvement of Change Performance. The implications and research suggestions are discussed.