Business Analytics Capabilities and Decision Quality: The Mediating Roles of Decision Speed and Comprehensiveness

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the nexus between business analytics and strategic decision facets using the resource-based theory. Analysis with partial least squares demonstrate that decision comprehensiveness and speed mediate the relationship between business analytics and decision quality. While fuzzy sets analysis demonstrates that business analytics, decision comprehensiveness, and speed are sufficient (but not necessary) conditions for decision quality. When firms utilize business analytics, decision speed and comprehensiveness are mutually inclusive. Theoretical and practical implications are offered.

KEYWORDS:

• Data analytics
• business intelligence
• decision-making speed
• decision-making comprehensiveness
• Saudi vision 2030
• strategic decisions

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Supplementary material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10580530.2023.2179704.

Additional information

Funding

The work was supported by the Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University [RG-21-50-01].

Notes on contributors

Mamdouh Abdallah Mohamed Abdellatif

Mamdouh Abdallah Mohamed Abdellatif is an associate professor at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Saudi Arabia. His research interests are social media impact studies, media organization management and media content analysis. He has supervised and discussed several media theses in Egyptian and Arab universities. He has published his work in journals such as Technology in Society, Kybernetes, Information Sciences Letters and Global Media and Communication.

A. Mohammed Abubakar

A. Mohammed Abubakar is an Associate Professor of MIS at Antalya Bilim University, Turkey. His research spans into information systems, business analytics, big data, knowledge management, digital labor and market platforms, workplace, and employee relations domain. His work has appeared in top-tier journals including the International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Knowledge Management, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Service Industries Journal etc. He has been included in the list of top 2% of the world’s scientists compiled by Stanford University and Elsevier BV in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Malek Bakheet Haroun Elayan

Malek Elayan, Assistant Professor in Human Resources Department at the Institute of Public Administration (IPA), Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. He has published several related articles and book chapters, reviewed manuscripts and textbooks, and participated in local and international conferences as both a participant and a presenter, His Research interests are HRM Practices, e-HRM, Organizational factors analysis, and Contemporary Business topics.

Jamal Abdelrahman.M. Hayajneh

Jamal Abdelrahman .M.Hayajneh Assistant Professor in Business Administration College at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Saudi Arabia. His research focuses in HRM, strategic management and knowledge management. He has published several articles in the stated field.