Experiential Profiles: An Instrument For Assessing The Efficacy Of Surrogates For IS Roles

Abstract

Given both the need for IS professionals as experimental subjects in behavioral research and their limited availability, IS research would be served by determining a way to assess the efficacy of surrogates for IS professionals so that surrogates could be used where appropriate.  Because a single monolithic ‘IS professional’ does not exist, and comparisons of experiential differences must account for how experience shapes a professional’s way of seeing and evaluating the world, the authors identified an instrument for comparing the experiential profile of CIOs to surrogates.  The authors validated the instrument using a group shown in the literature to possess a significantly different experiential profile from CIOs.