Analysis of The Impact of Information Technology Investments - A Survey of Indonesian Universities

摘要

In recent years, the utilization of information technology has been magnificently increased in service industries,udparticularly, education institution, which by using Information Technology related products such as academic informationudsystem and learning management system. In Indonesia, universities invest enormous resources in information technologyud(IT), with little evidence of the latter’s effectiveness. Stakeholders struggle with gauging how effective or ineffectiveudmaking these investments truly is, given the lack of instruments of measurement by which to establish, for instance, anudinternal rate of return or a period of recovery on investments. This paper investigates the impact of investment inudinformation technology on the return on assets (ROA) of selected private universities in Indonesia for the period 2008 -ud2014 using Adapted Information Economics. By using this method, it is possible to implement into other university.udPrimary and secondary data were collected during this research. The study recommends that universities should increaseudinvestments in software, hardware and infrastructure which will enhance their Management Information System andudprofitability.