Corporate Executives’ Personal ICT Preferences and Corporate ICT Adoption

We examine whether top executives’ preferences for new disruptive personal ICTs influence their firms’ corporate ICT adoption. We test our research question using data from a proprietary survey of the top executives of publicly listed Chinese firms. We show that top executives’ usage of new disruptive personal ICTs reflects their personal preferences rather than firm behavior. More importantly, we find that top executives’ personal ICT preferences are positively associated with their perceived value of corporate ICTs and actual corporate ICT adoption.