Trapped in the Status Quo? Cognitive Misperceptions’ Effects on Users’ Resistance to Mandatory Usage

Weiler, Severin; Marheinecke, Hanna; Matt, Christian und Hess, Thomas (2019): Trapped in the Status Quo? Cognitive Misperceptions’ Effects on Users’ Resistance to Mandatory Usage. 23th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2019), Xi'an, China, 8th-12th July 2019. In: PACIS 2019 Proceedings,

Abstract

Owing to bounded rational decision-making, professional IS users often tend to resist new ISs by sticking with incumbent systems. Mainly due to misconceptualizations about the concept and methodological hurdles in isolating effects, to date, IS research has failed to provide empirical evidence of a fundamental tenet of the status quo bias (SQB): cognitive misperceptions. We address this gap, developing an experimental approach to show that cognitive misperceptions are a cause of user resistance. We find that a manipulated reference point leads to an SQB that ties users to their incumbent IS: A gain framing leads to a lower conversion propensity. The reverse is true for a loss framing. We contribute to the literature by providing empirical evidence of cognitive misperceptions leading to the SQB. For managers of implementation projects, if the objective benefits of novel IS are hard to communicate, they should proactively address the SQB so as to forestall user resistance.

• Dokumententyp: Konferenzbeitrag (Paper)
• Fakultät: Betriebswirtschaft > Institut für Digitales Management und Neue Medien
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• Sprache: Englisch