Conceptualizing the integration of business and private components in individual information systems

Lanzl, Julia; Gimpel, Henner; Afflerbach, Patrick Jürgen; Gimpel, Henner Article Conceptualizing the integration of business and private components in individual information systems Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR) Provided in Cooperation with: Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. Suggested Citation: Lanzl, Julia; Gimpel, Henner; Afflerbach, Patrick Jürgen; Gimpel, Henner (2024) : Conceptualizing the integration of business and private components in individual information systems, Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR), ISSN 2366-6153, Springer, Heidelberg, Vol. 76, Iss. 1, pp. 29-61, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41471-023-00176-w This Version is available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298793 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. 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If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ORIGINAL ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1007/s41471-023-00176-w Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 Conceptualizing the Integration of Business and Private Components in Individual Information Systems Julia Lanzl · Lena Utz · Patrick Afflerbach · Henner Gimpel Received: 30 August 2021 / Accepted: 4 November 2023 / Published online: 5 December 2023 © The Author(s) 2023 Abstract Individuals build their individual information system (IIS) with which they manage the boundary between different domains of life. In this age of permanent mobile accessibility, however, the boundary between the private and business domains can become blurred. While some users try to maintain a degree of separation between the two IIS sub-systems (the private and the business information system), others integrate them. Understanding such integration is essential as it affects wellbeing and performance in both domains. To further this understanding, we introduce a conceptualization of IIS that distinguishes between four layers of IIS: devices, digital identities, relationships, and information. To measure IIS integration, we develop a method based on the IIS components’ usage frequencies in each domain. We evaluate our conceptualization as well as our measurement method by empirically testing a theoretical model of IIS integration on multiple layers. Our data provides empirical support for the importance of relationship integration as one of the four This paper was originally submitted and independently peer-reviewed at Business Research, one of SBUR’s predecessor journals. It has been accepted by the same Editor-in-Chief for publication in the successor journal SBUR. Julia Lanzl · Lena Utz · Henner Gimpel Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT, Augsburg, Germany E-Mail: julia.[email protected]r.de Henner Gimpel E-Mail: [email protected] Julia Lanzl · Lena Utz · Patrick Afflerbach · Henner Gimpel FIM Research Center for Information Management, Augsburg, Germany E-Mail: [email protected] Patrick Afflerbach E-Mail: [email protected] Julia Lanzl · Henner Gimpel Chair of Digital Management, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany K 30 Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 layers. This leads us to the conclusion that even though IIS are composed of four layers, only the relationship layer is of interest regarding IIS integration. Our results are of interest and service to individuals, organizations, and IT designers who aim to manage IIS integration for individual and organizational benefits. Keywords Individual information systems · Boundary theory · IIS integration · Structural equation modeling 1 Introduction Since Apple released the iPhone in 2007, smartphone use has increased rapidly. By 2016, the share of adults who owned a smartphone had reached 60% in Germany and an even higher 72% in the United States (Poushter 2016). Ever since, this tech affinity has spread to a wide range of digital technologies, such as computers, tablets, and smartwatches. Owing to the variety and potential of mobile devices, there has also been a remarkable increase in social networking sites, media streaming, online shopping, and other online services (vor dem Esche and Hennig-Thurau 2014). While this has afforded users greater mobility, it has also led to more work outside offices (Global Workplace Analytics 2016), which people tend to perform not only on business but also on private devices (Harris et al. 2012). Efforts to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 involved unprecedented numbers of employees working from home with an assortment of devices, their digital identities and the like stemming from both the private and the business domains of their lives. The consequences of this continuing digitalization stand to reason: the private and business domains are increasingly overlapping. People build their own individual information system (IIS), which leads to more or less overlap between the private and business domains. Baskerville (2011a, p. 1) defines IIS as “an activity system in which individual persons, according to idiosyncratic needs and preferences, perform processes and activities using information, technology, and other resources to produce informational products and/or services for use by themselves or others.” An IIS has two sub-systems that either serve the user as a business person or as a private person (Baskerville 2011b). We call these sub-systems the “business information system” (BIS) and the “private information system” (PIS). It is worth noting that BIS and enterprise information systems (EIS) differ in the sense that a BIS is the system of an individual in the business domain, while an EIS refers to an entire organization. To manage the increasing overlap of their private and business lives, individuals either use their IIS to separate the two domains as far as possible by keeping their PIS and BIS apart, or they integrate the systems into the opposite spaces of life to blend their private and business domains. In boundary theory (Ashforth et al. 2000), this strategy is called a boundary management tactic (Nippert-Eng 1996). High integration of the sub-systems, and of the two domains of life they serve, has been associated with higher domain blurring, greater work-life conflict, and intensified work stress (e.g., Köffer et al. 2014a; Wang and Zhang 2015; Yun et al. 2012). To date, most of these studies on IIS as a boundary management tactic K Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 31 have focused on the smartphone as a representative device of a socio-technical IIS that fosters domain integration. What these studies have not done, however, is investigate IIS as a whole (Duxbury et al. 2014; Yun et al. 2012). There is, as yet, no appreciation that integration lies on a continuum between complete integration and complete segmentation (Köffer et al. 2015). The purpose of this study is to extend the literature by taking a holistic view on IIS and addressing the following research question: How can IIS integration be conceptualized, and which components of an IIS have to be considered? To let us better envision IIS components, we consider a fictional character named “Bob.” Bob serves as an amalgamation of ten qualitative user interviews that we conducted in advance to understand better and illustrate the issue of IIS integration. All interviewees are employees of one knowledge-intensive organization with the same equipment characteristics as a business notebook, business cellphone, etc. So, we build the basic structure of Bob. However, some features were different from other interviewees. We have included these remarkable features in the example of Bob: Bob is 31 years old and lives with his partner. He is a project manager with his own space at his company’s office, yet he often works from home, where he uses a dedicated room as his home office. Bob has both a private and a business notebook but uses only his private device, be it for private or business purposes, and he does so at home as well as at the company’s office. He uses his private smartphone for his work and private life, whereas he does not use his business smartphone at all. However, he plans to get a second SIM card, two different numbers, and different ringtones for his business and personal calls. Furthermore, he has a landline phone in his office. For private instant messages, he uses WhatsApp, whereas he uses Microsoft Teams for those related to business. In some urgent cases, he contacts colleagues via WhatsApp. For business video calls, he uses Microsoft Teams and Zoom. For his email correspondence, he has private and business email addresses. For social networking, he uses Facebook and Twitter. Bob’s business project has its own Twitter account, and he is responsible for communicating news relating to this project. Occasionally, Bob uses YouTube for work-related research, but for the most part, he uses this channel to watch videos in his spare time. Bob has been working for this company for several years, and during this time, some of his colleagues have become close friends. He talks to them about his family and aspects of his private life, such as holidays. Conversely, he talks to his partner about his business projects. In Bob’s situation, three critical questions come to mind: Which structure can we discern in Bob’s IIS? How does this IIS contribute to integrating or segmenting his private and business lives? What are the positive and negative consequences of how he handles this IIS? Researchers have proposed different IIS conceptualizations, some varying in the sub-layers of an IIS, others in its sub-systems (e.g., Gaß et al. 2015; Lee et al. 2015). Our first step, therefore, is to conceptualize the four layers of an IIS based on the extant literature, whereupon we will conduct a qualitative pre-study and define IIS integration on each of the four layers. To test the nomological validity (Judd et al. 1991) of our conceptualized construct, we build a research model in line with K 32 Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 Ashforth et al. (2000). This model is itself tested based on survey data and thereby follows the guidelines that MacKenzie et al. (2011) set for construct measurement and validation. We find support for IIS integration on the four layers, and we find support for the measurement method. We also find that IIS integration is highest at the device level and lowest at the relationship level. Our results indicate the relevance of dedicated research into IIS integration, and they provide a frame of reference for its analysis and management. One contribution of this paper is to be a proposal of a four-layer conceptualization of IIS, combining various views on the topic. The four layers are as follows: devices (i.e., hardware tools like smartphones or laptops), digital identities (i.e., the representation of the individual in different IT services by such means as an email address or a phone number), relationships (i.e., social ties with friends or colleagues via the technology layers of the IIS), and information (i.e., data processing on the technology layers of the IIS). The second contribution of this paper is the conceptualization of IIS integration. Users can influence the amount of integration and segmentation of their private and business lives by changing how they use their IIS on its various layers. When they keep their PIS and BIS apart, the overlap of private and business domains tends to be notably smaller. Conversely, users can integrate the systems into the opposite domains—for example, by using the private devices and digital identities for private and business matters—to intentionally integrate their private and business lives. Our contribution to the literature, then, is the finding that the integration on the relationship layer has the most informative value on IIS integration as a whole. The remainder of this paper is structured as follows: Section 2 sets up the theoretical foundation of boundary theory and IIS. Section 3 introduces the four layers of IIS and our conceptualization of IIS integration. Section 4 develops a research model and describes the design and operationalization of the survey along with its results. Section 5 discusses the findings, theoretical contributions, and practical implications for individuals, organizations, and IT designers. This fifth and final section also provides a perspective on future research. 2 Theoretical Background For this paper, we build on two research streams, which we explain in this Chapter: boundary theory from social psychology and individual information systems from IS research. We then elaborate on the importance of considering the integration of different components when researching IIS and show how IIS research has previously incorporated knowledge from boundary theory into its theorizing on IIS. 2.1 Boundary Theory Boundary theory emerged from social psychology and the organizational sciences. It posits that individuals perform different roles in different contexts. A role is defined as “the building block of social systems and the summation of the requirements with which such systems confront their members as individuals” (Katz and Kahn 1978, K Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 33 p. 219f.). To simplify their environment, individuals create and negotiate boundaries between their roles. These boundaries break up their lives into fragments, or so-called domains, each containing one or more roles. The two major domains are the private and the business domains (Ashforth et al. 2000; Nippert-Eng 1996; Rothbard et al. 2005). Boundaries are everything that delimits the scope of a domain (Ashforth et al. 2000). Individuals use different tools and tactics to manage their boundaries; this can be time, space, behaviors, or physical artifacts, such as calendars, keys, or clothes. Teleworkers, for instance, often use time to divide their day into private time and business time. Alternatively, they use spatial boundaries by setting up one room solely for their business matters (Fonner and Stache 2012;Jahnetal.2016;Kreiner 2006; Nippert-Eng 1996;ParkandJex2011). Creating boundaries causes higher domain segmentation, a state in which individuals create boundaries that are inflexible and impermeable. Domains are separated without any overlaps in time, space, artifacts, or activities. At the other extreme, domain integration denotes the state in which individuals deliberately design boundaries as flexible and permeable. In that case, individuals make “no distinction [...] between what belongs to ‘home’ or ‘work’ and when and where [one domain’s roles] are engaged” (Nippert-Eng 1996, p. 567). Time, space, artifacts, and activities of the domains overlap entirely. While theoretically possible, however, integration and segmentation in these extreme forms are very rare. The real-life shaping of boundaries lies on a continuum between integration and segmentation, and individuals tend to find their comfort zone somewhere towards one of these poles (Ashforth et al. 2000; Kreiner 2006; Nippert-Eng 1996). Integration and segmentation have three main consequences: domain blurring, the level of cross-domain interruptions, and the magnitude of transition between domains. Work-family blurring, for instance, is “the experience of difficulty in distinguishing one’s work from one’s family [domain]” (Desrochers et al. 2005, p. 460). Cross-domain interruptions occur when time spent in one domain is interrupted by an element belonging to the other, for instance, a private call from the wife or husband during business hours (Ashforth et al. 2000; Chen and Karahanna 2014). The magnitude of transition between two domains is the effort needed to psychologically and physically leave one domain and enter another (Ashforth et al. 2000). Higher domain integration leads to advanced domain blurring and more cross-domain interruptions, while higher segmentation leads to a greater psychological and physical magnitude of transition between the domains (Ashforth et al. 2000). The most extensively researched consequence of domain integration is the socalled work-life conflict (also known as the work-family or work-home conflict). This conflict arises when “pressures from the work and family domains are mutually incompatible in some respect” (Greenhaus and Beutell 1985, p. 77). Desrochers et al. (2005), for instance, found an increasing effect of domain blurring on worklife conflict. Work-life conflict, in turn, can cause higher stress or strain and lower organizational commitment (Ahuja et al. 2007; Ayyagari et al. 2011; Yun et al. 2012). It is worth noting, though, that domain integration does not automatically cause adverse effects, and this brings us to why an individual’s preference for domain K 34 Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 integration or segmentation matters. The moderating effect of the individual’s preference is often referred to as person-environment fit—the congruence between an individual’s preference for integration and their experience of the actual degree of integration. A greater fit has positive consequences, such as more job satisfaction, higher organizational commitment, lower stress, and lower work-life conflict (Fonner and Stache 2012;Köfferetal.2014a; Kreiner 2006; Rothbard et al. 2005). 2.2 Individual Information Systems Alter (2008) studied existent definitions of IS with the result that the most conceptualizations of IS exclude the individual components. He defines IS as a “work system,” “in which human participants and/or machines perform work (processes and activities) using information, technology, and other resources to produce specific products and/or services for specific internal or external customers.” (Alter 2008, p. 451). With the choice of the term “work,” he restricts the definition to merely business IS. This makes it difficult to consider such systems, whose design refers to wholly or partly leisure activities as well as business activities. Today, individuals are their own administrators and autonomously design ever more powerful and complex IS that are even larger and more complex than the organizational IS administrated by IT departments of the past (Baskerville and Lee 2013). It is therefore very important to look at the IIS as well. An IIS is a specific IS type. Baskerville (2011a, p. 1) defines IIS as “an activity system in which individual persons, according to idiosyncratic needs and preferences, perform processes and activities using information, technology, and other resources to produce informational products and/or services for use by themselves or others.” Gaß et al. (2015) suggest that an IIS has a variety of information and communication technology components, such as devices, services, applications, websites, and apps. Much like Baskerville (2011a), Gaß et al. (2015) further argue that the social context is important. What is more, they make the valid point that an individual has different IT identities in different contexts, each shaped by their values, attitudes, morals, knowledge, and skills (Gaß et al. 2015). In attempts to identify the consequences of IIS, scholars have largely focused on the positives. On the personal side, these include increased autonomy, motivation, and ease of adoption. For organizations, they include higher adoption speed and greater employee availability (Dell and Intel 2011; Murdoch et al. 2010;Niehaves et al. 2012; Del Prete et al. 2011). Meanwhile, other studies have focused on the “dark side” of IIS. In their meta-analysis, Pirkkalainen and Salo (2016) summarized these studies and differentiated the adverse effects that individuals experience due to IS (rather than merely IIS) into four clusters: technostress, information overload, IT addiction, and IT anxiety. In addition to this classification, Pirkkalainen and Salo (2016) identified the contexts in which these four phenomena can be observed: the business or the private domain. K Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 35 2.3 IIS Integration With the growth of importance and versatility, IIS has also become increasingly useful for professional activities (Gaß et al. 2015). Nowadays, employees use their private devices for business purposes or business devices for private purposes. In extreme but not so rare cases, it can be that some devices from one domain substitute devices from another (e.g., smartphones). Each IIS is designed individually and different from another, depending on the requirements and needs of each individual and their context. But previous IS literature does not fully address these developments and lacks a holistic conceptualization of the IIS (Gaß et al. 2015). For example, research on consumerization (Moschella et al. 2004; Weiß and Leimeister 2012) has investigated IIS on an organizational level and focuses on the diffusion of technologies originally made for the usage in an organization. Research on individualization (Baskerville 2011a) describes a similar consumerization process on the individual level. Specifically, it has examined the reasons and consequences of privately owned IT used by employees for business purposes (e.g., Niehaves et al. 2012; Ortbach 2015; Ortbach et al. 2013). IT consumerization on individual level is one of two possible directions that IIS integration can take. The research in this area has found important consequences for individuals, such as increased flexibility and performance but also additional data privacy implications. As for organizations, the research has indicated similarly important consequences, such as advanced innovation in business processes but also a larger number of IT security issues and a loss of organizational control (Behrens 2009; Ortbach 2015;Weegeretal.2015). To date, however, there is a certain gap in the IT consumerization literature when it comes to research on the impacts of an IIS in which the private and business domains are, to one degree or another, integrated. As the business and private domains of life increasingly overlap and their boundaries become blurred, a comprehensive examination of both is necessary to identify how IIS integration affects the entirety of an individual’s life. To date, such IIS integration has not been studied in sufficient depth, nor have the consequences of its varying degrees. 2.4 Boundary Theory in IIS Research Boundary theory and its related constructs explain the effects of more or less integrated domains of life, yet the boundaries between them can be shaped and reshaped with a variety of strategies. IIS developed as a new possibility of managing these boundaries. With its help, individuals can connect to the private and the business domains, regardless of time or space, which is to say they can overcome traditional boundaries (Golden and Geisler 2007;ParkandJex2011). As a result, the extent of an individual’s overall domain integration can to some extent be determined by boundary management tactics. For instance, teleworkers may use two different rooms to segment their domains but may also use their computer in either of those rooms to write both business and private emails. In response to this development, IIS-related boundary management has become a key topic in boundary theory and IS research (Duxbury et al. 2014; Fenner and K 36 Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 Renn 2010;Jahnetal.2016;Köfferetal.2015;Kreiner2006). While social science researchers have analyzed IIS as a new boundary management tactic that can provide new ways of setting boundaries (Golden and Geisler 2007; MacCormick et al. 2012), IIS researchers have examined the more extensive integration of domains and its associated effects, such as greater domain blurring and more cross-domain interruptions (Chamakiotis et al. 2014;Kochetal.2012;Köfferetal.2014a). Further, integrated approaches combine knowledge from both disciplines to better understand the consequences of IIS integration and boundary management (e.g., Duxbury et al. 2014;Jahnetal.2016). With regard to boundary management, prior studies have defined a range of strategies. Jahn et al. (2016), for example, have distinguished between integration strategies that use information technologies, depending on whether their primary objective is segmentation, integration, or mediation between the two. Another example is the study of Duxbury et al. (2014) in the course of which they interviewed 25 professional knowledge workers about their individual smartphone use and how this affects their lives. The results indicated three different groups: integrators, who tend to integrate domains by use of their smartphone, segmentors, who tend to segment domains, and struggling segmentors, who only use their business devices during non-business hours if they feel pressure from their employer to do so. Concerning the effects of IIS integration on individuals, multiple studies revealed that the shared use of devices or services for both private and business tasks had a notable impact on domain blurring, which was found to exacerbate the work-life conflict (Köffer et al. 2014a; Wang and Zhang 2015; Yun et al. 2012). This, in turn, has been associated with greater job stress (Yun et al. 2012). Meanwhile, Köffer et al. (2014b) concluded that IIS integration has a positive effect on job performance. In summary, research at the intersection of boundary theory and IIS suggests that IIS has to be considered as an important new boundary management tool with the potential of affecting an individual’s well-being in a meaningful way, yet there is more research to be done. So far, the literature on IIS and boundary theory has not yet addressed the fact that any real-life integration of those two domains sits on a continuum between complete integration and complete segmentation. 3 Conceptualizing IIS Integration To measure IIS integration, we first define what components we mean by IIS. Therefore, we build our concept on the seminal studies by Lee et al. (2015), Gaß et al. (2015), and Baskerville (2011a). According to Lee et al. (2015), an IS is the combinational interplay of technology, information, and social artifacts. A technology artifact is understood to be a human-created tool (e.g., hardware or software) that is “used to solve a problem, achieve a goal or serve a purpose that is human defined, human perceived or human felt” (Lee et al. 2015, p. 8). An information artifact is “the instantiation of information, where the instantiation occurs through a human act either directly [...] or indirectly” (Lee et al. 2015, p. 8). A social artifact consists of “relationships or interactions between or among individuals” (Lee et al. 2015, p. 9) (see Fig. 1, left). Gaß et al. (2015) suggest that an IIS has a variety of informaK Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 43 Table 1 Construct Definitions Construct Definition Source IIS Integration The degree of overlap in the use of the IIS sub-systems (PIS and BIS) Self-developed Domain Blurring “The experience of difficulty in distinguishing” one domain from another Desrochers et al. (2005, p. 460) Cross-Domain Interruptions The experience of having one domain intrude into another Ashforth et al. (2000); Chen and Karahanna (2014) Physical Magnitude of Transition The effort required to leave one domain to enter another physically Ashforth et al. (2000) Psychological Magnitude of Transition The effort required to leave one domain to enter another psychologically Ashforth et al. (2000) To assess content and face validity of the item scales, we conducted a card sorting among fellow researchers (Moore and Benbasat 1991; Thatcher et al. 2018). We asked participants to match the items to the definition of each layer integration in an online mask. Sixteen participants completed the task. Participants matched 38 of the 44 items correctly by a percentage of at least 80%. We reviewed the other six items and reformulated them according to the participants’ feedback so as to do full justice to the content of the respective construct. Next, we designed an online survey to collect data and empirically test our measures of the various constructs of the research model as well as the demographics. We restricted participation to currently or recently employed or self-employed individuals since the survey sought to collect data concerning both domains. We recruited participants from the United States via the online crowdsourcing market, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an internet-based platform to recruit participants for small tasks, such as the participation in a survey (Steelman et al. 2014). This platform has already been used in several IS studies (e.g., James et al. 2019; Kehr et al. 2015; Lowry et al. 2016) and studies on the population of MTurk participants have shown that they are not different from populations of other internetbased recruited samples based on different psychometric scales (Buhrmester et al. 2011). However, to ensure data quality, we executed different measures, such as an instructional manipulation check (Oppenheimer et al. 2009), an attention check, and free text questions to identify unusual comments (Chmielewski and Kucker 2020). Further, respondents were paid a small incentive for participation in the study. Following the recommendations of Hair et al. (2014), we aimed to achieve a sample size of at least 191 respondents. Of the respondents who took part in this study, 205 provided data that met our quality guidelines. 36% of the respondents were female. The average age of the respondents was 37 years. 4.3 Results 4.3.1 Measurement Model For scale purification and refinement, we assessed our measurement model by structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) using SmartPLS 3.0 and followed the suggesK 44 Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 tions of Hair et al. (2014). When it came to assessing the formative measure for IIS integration as the extent of integration on the four layers, we examined content validity by performing a “subjective but systematic evaluation of how well the domain content of a construct is captured by its indicators” (Hair et al. 2014, p. 115). Based on the theoretical derivation and our card sorting, we deemed the content valid. We then assessed the indicators for collinearity by checking whether each indicator’s variance inflation factor (VIF) value was lower than 5.0 (Hair et al. 2014). Our data fulfilled this criterion. We also examined the indicators’ outer weights and outer loadings. Regarding the former, only the outer weight of relationship integration was significant. However, based on the recommendations of Hair et al. (2014)and Cenfetelli and Bassellier (2009), we retained all four indicators, as their outer loadings were all significant and higher than 0.5. See Appendix B for an overview of the constructs’ outer weights and loadings and the indicators’ correlations. The outer weights and loadings also revealed that the relationship layer is of highest importance for the construct, with an outer loading of 0.994. This may imply that the other three layers could be omitted from the construct. However, the nature of formative constructs is that the indicators only together determine the meaning of a construct since “each indicator [...] captures a specific aspect of the construct’s domain” (Hair et al. 2014, p. 43). Thus, we decided to retain all four indicators since they reflect the four theoretical layers of IIS integration, but to analyze the issue once again when testing the structural model (see last paragraph of Sect. 4.3.3). To assess the reflective measures of domain blurring, cross-domain interruptions, psychological magnitude of transition, and physical magnitude of transition, we started by examining internal consistency reliability. According to Hair et al. (2014), this is best assessed via composite reliability (CR), which should be higher than 0.708. All of our constructs exceeded this threshold. With a view to convergent validity, we examined indicator reliability and average variance extracted (AVE). To assess indicator reliability, we checked each indicator’s outer loadings. All of them were found to be over the expected 0.708. Also, AVE turned out to be satisfactory, since the minimum AVE for all constructs was measured at 0.747 (Hair et al. 2014). For discriminant validity, we first examined each indicator’s cross-loadings with all other constructs to check whether they were lower than the indicator’s outer loading on the construct. Our data met this criterion. We then made sure that each construct’s square root of the AVE was higher than the highest correlation with other constructs (Fornell-Larcker criterion). Discriminant validity is therefore supported. Table 2shows means, standard deviations (SD), and CR values as well as the AVE values for all constructs. Information on control variables, (cross-)loadings, and the Fornell-Larcker criterion can be found in Appendix C. Since the item scales had already met the quality criteria, we did not collect a new sample, as suggested by MacKenzie et al. (2011). Instead, we finalized the process by assessing nomological validity, which will be presented in Sect. 4.3.3. K Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 45 Table 2 Descriptive Statistics, Main Factor Loadings, Internal Consistency, and Average Variance Extracted No. of Items Mean SD Loadings CR AVE IIS Integration 4 0.626 0.279 0.564–0.994 – – Domain Blurring 2 4.568 1.885 0.857–0.897 0.870 0.770 Cross-Domain Interruptions 2 4.198 1.998 0.863–0.866 0.855 0.747 Psychological Magnitude of Transition 4 3.990 2.015 0.878–0.903 0.940 0.797 Physical Magnitude of Transition 4 3.990 2.011 0.868–0.910 0.939 0.795 4.3.2 Initial Statistics On IIS Integration We calculated the degree of integration for each layer with the aforementioned method. First, we assigned values of 1 to 7 to the seven-point Likert scales that we used to ask about usage frequency of devices and digital identities and integration of relationships and information. See Fig. 4for the corresponding histograms. Table 3 provides an overview of the mean and standard deviations for the four layers divided by gender, age, marital status, and weekly working hours. We also tested for significant differences between the groups, displaying the p-values of the unpaired t-tests and the analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results differ by IIS layer. The device layer shows the highest mean of 0.708, followed by digital identities with a mean of 0.641. Respondents use many devices for both business and private matters, and sometimes they use different digital identities on these devices to attend to different matters. As for the relationship and the information layers, both show relatively high mean integration values of 0.554 and 0.603. Respondents often talk or exchange messages with their family/ friends and colleagues about business as well as private matters. Our results show no significant gender differences between IIS layers. Regarding age, however, we can see a significant difference in digital identity integration. The highest rate was found among respondents between the ages of 45 and 54, followed by the age group of 25 to 34. An interesting observation worth noting here is that respondents who work less than 30h per week tend to integrate their digital identities and relationships more than full-time employees do. Often, they use a private digital identity like a smartphone number or email address in the business domain and vice versa. Furthermore, they tend to have more friends among their colleagues. 4.3.3 Structural Model and Testing of the Hypotheses The structural models were not impaired by collinearity issues, as indicated by all VIF values being lower than 5.0. See Fig. 5for the model estimates. IIS integration was found to be positively related to domain blurring, cross-domain interruptions, and psychological magnitude of transition, which lays credence to H1, H2, and H4. However, it is also positively related to the physical magnitude K 46 Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 Table 3 Mean, Standard Deviation, and Results of Tests for Significant Differences of DOI Device Integration Digital Identity Integration Relationship Integration Information Integration N Mean SD p-value Mean SD p-value Mean SD p-value Mean SD p-value Total – 205 0.708 0.282 – 0.641 0.331 – 0.554 0.266 – 0.603 0.203 – Gendera Female 73 0.715 0.294 0.793 0.657 0.329 0.613 0.525 0.286 0.273 0.592 0.229 0.579 Male 132 0.704 0.276 0.632 0.333 0.569 0.253 0.609 0.187 Ageb Under 25 4 0.595 0.366 0.361 0.284 0.396 0.043* 0.514 0.305 0.088 0.583 0.134 0.511 25 to 34 109 0.732 0.252 0.682 0.303 0.591 0.238 0.61 0.183 35 to 44 44 0.709 0.294 0.568 0.365 0.48 0.278 0.563 0.217 45 to 54 22 0.714 0.323 0.704 0.307 0.601 0.315 0.655 0.251 >54 26 0.614 0.328 0.594 0.358 0.485 0.283 0.601 0.221 Marital Statusb Single 38 0.701 0.265 0.003** 0.618 0.343 <0.001*** 0.529 0.297 <0.001*** 0.578 0.205 0.007** In a Relationship 14 0.580 0.262 0.470 0.307 0.417 0.275 0.530 0.171 Married 143 0.742 0.271 0.690 0.314 0.594 0.244 0.629 0.186 Divorced 8 0.426 0.360 0.235 0.239 0.274 0.168 0.451 0.355 Widowed 2 0.401 0.313 0.439 0.480 0.236 0.334 0.302 0.280 Weekly Working Hoursa,c <30 23 0.755 0.256 0.346 0.783 0.179 0.001** 0.653 0.229 0.037* 0.629 0.215 0.565 30 or more 180 0.700 0.286 0.625 0.34 0.540 0.269 0.602 0.202 *p<0.05 ** p<0.01 *** p< 0.001 ap-value of unpaired t-test bp-value of ANOVA cN= 203 owing to missing information K Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 47 Fig. 4 Histograms showing the degrees of integration for all Four Layers (n= 205) of transition, rather than negatively, as posited in H3. Results for control variables can be found in Appendix D. To further validate our findings, we first screened our data for non-response bias by separately analyzing the model for the first and second halves of our group of respondents (Armstrong and Overton 1977). We found no indication of non-response bias. Second, we checked for common method variance (CMV) by employing the correlational marker technique as a post hoc test (Lindell and Whitney 2001;Richardson et al. 2009). We partialled out the smallest and the second-smallest shared variance in bivariate correlations among substantive exogenous latent variables. Since we found only minor changes in significance of the bivariate correlation among these variables, we deem CMV not to be a concern in this study. Furthermore, we implemented the correlational marker technique with a theoretically unrelated marker variable (Lindell and Whitney 2001; Richardson et al. 2009). Again, partialling out the smallest and second-smallest shared variance between the marker and the substantive exogenous variables resulted in no substantial changes in significance of bivariate correlations. There is, then, no evidence to indicate CMV in our study. Third, we conducted a robustness check on our measurement method by changing one of its specifications. As proposed, we calculated the DOI by weighting the partial integrations (doi) with the usage frequency. For the robustness check, we built an unweighted mean. We ran the PLS algorithm with the unweighted DOIs and found the same significant relationships. This finding lends further support to the rationale of our measurement method, which is to calculate the extent of IIS integration by K 48 Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 Fig. 5 Model Results putting each component’s usage frequency for one domain into a relationship with the other domain’s usage frequency, seeing as changing one subordinate specification did not alter the results. Fourth, to further test whether all layers are important we ran four separate models measuring IIS integration with only one of the IIS layers each to test whether all layers individually are related to the dependent variables (see Table 4). The results show that each layer itself shows significant relations with the four dependent variables. However, the path coefficients within the primary model, including all four indicators, are only slightly higher than in the model including only relationship integration (Model 4), thus indicating that adding the other three indicators does not increase the path coefficients substantially. These results from comparing the models together with the high loadings of relationship integration as compared to the lower loadings of the other layers lead us to the conclusion that only the relationship layer is necessary for explaining outcomes of IIS integration. While we theoretically conceptualized four layers of IIS, only one of them is necessary for explaining the consequences of the integration of IIS. We will discuss this issue in the following discussion section. K Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 49 Table 4 Model Comparison with Different Subsets of IIS Integration Layers Path Coefficients Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5 Operationalization of IIS Integration All four indicators Only device integration Only digital identity integration Only relationship integration Only information integration IIS Integration! Domain Blurring 0.705 *** 0.354 *** 0.372 *** 0.696 *** 0.499 *** IIS Integration! Cross-Domain Interruptions 0.601 *** 0.236 *** 0.289 *** 0.599 *** 0.398 *** IIS Integration! Physical Magnitude of Transition 0.703 *** 0.304 *** 0.376 *** 0.703 *** 0.498 *** IIS Integration!Psychological Magnitude of Transition 0.711 *** 0.291 *** 0.443 *** 0.695 *** 0.446 *** *p<0.05 ** p<0.01 *** p< 0.001 5 Discussion For our conceptualization of IIS and IIS integration, we distinguished between four layers of IIS, defined IIS integration as the overlap of IIS sub-systems from the private and business domains, and developed a measurement method to quantify the integration. We also developed a theoretical model for the effects of IIS integration and assessed this by means of a thorough empirical study. 5.1 Discussion of Results On IIS Integration Building on existing literature and our preliminary interviews, we conceptualized IIS as a composite of four layers: devices, digital identities, relationships, and information. However, when looking at the integration of an IIS, relationship integration was found to have the most informative value on IIS integration as a whole, while the other three layers do not contribute to explaining the outcomes as much. This is interesting as it implies that regardless of the technological (i.e., devices and digital identities) and information layers of IIS, the most important factor for determining whether business and private lives overlap seems to be the relationships the individual interacts with. This might be because integration on the relationship layer manifests integration on the other layers to some extent representing the inK 50 Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 dividual’s real-world relationships within the IIS. If, for example, an individual has a colleague who has also become a close friend over the years, the individual will talk to this colleague/friend about businessas well as private-life-related topics (thus, information integration is affected). For communicating with the colleague/ friend, the individual might not so much differentiate whether the shared business information is only communicated via business devices and digital identities and vice versa. These findings align with representation theory, which states that information systems are representations of domains (Wand and Weber 1995; BurtonJones et al. 2017). Regarding IIS integration, IIS are representations of the individual’s real-world relationship. This also adds to the recent discourse brought up by Baskerville et al. (2020), that today, digital technologies shape the physical reality, indicating that for IIS and IIS integration, in our case, the real-world still shapes the digital representation. Thus, we conclude that even though IIS are composed of four different layers, only the relationship layer is of interest when it comes to IIS integration. 5.2 Theoretical Contributions Our first theoretical contribution is the definition of four IIS layers. We arrived at this by building on the work that Baskerville (2011a) did in the field when defining IIS. We also drew on the research of Lee et al. (2015) to extend their three-layer definition of IS to IIS. Furthermore, we included the notions of Gaß et al. (2015). Our definition allows researchers to understand IIS better since the four layers can be analyzed and designed separately. Together, these contributions inform the as yet somewhat fledgling research on IIS and bolster its significance within the field of IS. This study’s second contribution to the literature is the finding on IIS integration, as this had merely been examined on certain parts of an IIS without accounting for all layers. While we first conceptualized IIS integration as the degree of overlap between its sub-systems on all four layers, we came to the conclusion that IIS integration is represented by the integration on the relationship layer alone throughout the empirical investigation. This conclusion adds to research on IT consumerization, investigating the use of privately-owned devices and digital identities for business purposes (i.e., integration of devices and digital identities) (e.g., Köffer et al. 2014a; Ortbach 2015; Ortbach et al. 2013). Our findings bring a new perspective on why individuals engage in IT consumerization, as the reason for this may first and foremost lie in the relationships that are present in both domains of life. Also, outcomes of IT consumerization, such as blurring domains, may not be because of the IT consumerization itself but because of the underlying relationship integration. Hence, future researchers would be well-advised to take this forward, conduct further investigations, and investigate how relationship integration and integration on the other layers are related. Even though relationship integration appears to manifest the integration of the other IIS layers, we can observe some people preferring to use two separate smartphones for communicating with the same relationships—depending on whether the communication is businessor private-related. Exploring the reasons for these differences is a promising avenue for future investigation. For this, our K Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 51 method for measuring integration on the different layers can be used to empirically investigate the relationships and effects of the single layers of IIS integration. Also, our study focuses on the two major domains of life: the private and the business. Our conceptualization, however, can be adapted to other domains. It can be used to examine sub-domains of the private domain, such as the family domain or the domain of one’s engagement in charity. Likewise, it can be used to differentiate between sub-domains of the business domain, such as the domains of different organizational teams of which the individual is a member. We made the third theoretical contribution of this study by being able to confirm the impact that IIS integration has on boundary theory constructs, such as blurring and interruptions, since, in doing so, we found support for the transfer of boundary theory to IIS research. In this context, it is also worth noting that this study contributes to boundary theory by revealing and demonstrating the relevance of IIS as a boundary management tactic to be deployed in tandem with the more traditional tactics. Further worth mentioning are the exploratory findings this study provides on the relationship between the extent of IIS integration by layer and gender, age, marital status, and working hours. It is our hope that these findings will inform future developments in IIS theory. 5.3 Practical Implications Our results suggest different practical implications for individuals, organizations, and IT designers. Individuals must understand the various ways in which their integration of relationships affects several outcomes, such as blurring and crossdomain interruptions. They must also understand that we all differ in the extent of integration that we deem to be most efficient and suitable to ourselves. Further complicating matters is the fact that the individual user depends on the options to construct an IIS that a device provider like their employer offers. Some employers will not allow the use of business smartphones or notebooks for private purposes. There can, then, be a gap between an individual’s intention to construct a bespoke IIS and the opportunities available to do so in the employment context. It is, therefore, in each individual’s interest to explore the various positive and negative ramifications along with the opportunities to construct a personalized IIS within the parameters of their organizational or social environment. Organizations, meanwhile, should be aware that their employees may differ considerably in what they deem to be the optimal extent of integration depending on the extent of their relationship integration. A supportive employer will, therefore, enable employees to create their technical and information layers of the IIS as integrated or segmented as they prefer to match the real-world relationship integration. Potential ways to facilitate such flexible IIS integration are so-called “bring your own device policies.” Other options include allowing private use of business email and clearly defining which work-related information may be shared with family and friends. Furthermore, organizations might also want to consider allowing their employees to keep their respective IIS segmented. If employees are given the means and liberty to optimize the extent of their individual IIS integration, their improved personal wellK 52 Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (2024) 76:29–61 being may prove beneficial to their professional performance and thus also pay off for their employer. The best way for IT designers to offer similarly effective support in constructing an individual’s optimized IIS is by providing technology that allows users to switch between integration and segmentation. For instance, smartphones should be able to distinguish if a call is related to a privateor business-related matter. This would allow the user to decide whether or not a cross-domain interruption is desirable or indeed permissible at a given time or place. 5.4 Limitations and Conclusion Like all research projects, this study is subject to certain limitations. We measured the integration of IIS by the respondents’ self-reported usage frequency of IIS components. Future research could advance data collection to measure IIS integration objectively. One possible way of doing so would be automated device and digital identity usage measurement. Another limitation in our measurement are the used marker variables to test for common method variance. Both variables were selfdeveloped and not subject to scale development in prior research. Furthermore, we did not differentiate between the directions of IIS integration. We did not differentiate between private IIS components extending into the business domain and vice versa. Future researchers might do well to broaden the understanding of IIS integration in that regard. They might also do well to expand the data collection, seeing as we restricted it to communication as the main use case of IIS. Although communication is an important use case in both business and private domains, further studies could yield interesting insights by measuring the integration of IIS as a whole. Furthermore, there are dynamic developments that impact the operationalization of IIS integration. Approaches such as Apple’s new focus feature change the way how individuals use diverse information systems and offer them more opportunities to separate their private domains from their business domains and vice versa (Apple 2021). Further research should address the impact of these developments on the operationalization of our four-layer model. 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