Technostress of accounting information system and its effect of task performance

Abstract

Many factors have been studied to improve the performance of accounting information system(AIS) in organisations, but one factor yet toreceive attention is how technostress is affecting its usage. Technostress is the negative consequences of technology usage which is associated with health related problems and hinders users' performance. The objective of the paper is to extend the technostress literature by studying the impact of AIS information characteristics on technostress and its effects on task performance of accountants.The results of accountants surveyed indicate support for the model, the relationship of scope and integration to technostress creator and technostress creatorto task performance were significant. On the contrary, the relationship of aggregation and timeliness to technostress creatorwere not supported.The implications discussed provided an opportunity for organisations to address technostress associated with AIS usage of accountants.