Strategic Information Systems and Their Role in Enhancing the Competitive Advantage of Business Organizations

Focus of the study: strategic information systems	Items
Organizational structure	From items 1 to 5
Strategy	From items 6 to 10
Material resources	From items11 to 15
Human resources	From items 16 to 20
Software	From items 21 to 25

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Table 2.

Dimensions of the competitive advantage Axis

Focus of the study: competitive advantage	Items
Cost	From items 26 to 30
Quality	From items 31 to 35
Deliverable	From items 36 to 40
Flexibility	From items 41 to 45
Innovation & Development	From items 46 to 50

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Table 3.

Minimum and Upper Limits of the Pentagonal Likert Scale

Degree of approval	Strongly agree	Agree	Neutral	Disagree	Strongly disagree
Arithmetic average	(1.00-1.80)	(1.81-2.60)	(2.61-3.40)	(3.41-4.20)	(4.21-5.00)

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Table 4.

Cronbach’s Alpha Overall Test

Axles	Number of phrases	Alpha Cronbach
Strategic Information Systems	25	0.831
Competitive advantage	25	0.882
Questionnaire	50	0.909

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Table 5.

Demographic characteristics of the study sample

Personality variables		Duplicate	Percentage %
Sex	Male	62	63.9
Sex	Female	35	36.1
Age group	25 to 35	15	15.5
	36 to 50	74	76.3
	More than 50 years	8	8.2
Current position	Frame	39	40.2
	Controller	22	22 .7
	Executive Assistant	19	19.6
	Other position	17	17 .5
Educational qualification	Secondary education	9	9. 3
	Baccalaureate	4	4 .1
	Senior Technician	16	16.5
	Bachelor	54	55.7
	Master	11	11.3
	Master	1	1.0
	Doctor	2	2.1
Years of experience in the foundation	Less than 5 years old	5	5.2
	5 years to 15 years	48	49.5
	More than 15 years	44	45.4

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Table 6.

Computational averages and standard deviations of the strategic information systems variable

Dimension	Arithmetic mean	Standard deviation	Degree of approval
Organizational structure	2.32	0.769	High
Strategy	2.21	0.707	High
Infrastructure	1.85	0.643	High
Human resources	2.56	0.922	High
Software	1.90	0.648	High

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Table 7.

Computational averages and standard deviations of the competitive advantage variable

Dimension	Arithmetic average	Standard deviation	Degree of approval
Cost	1.99	0.638	High
Quality	2.13	0.688	High
Deliverable	1.97	0.645	High
Flexibility	2.29	0.783	High
Creativity and Development	2.02	0.589	High

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Table 8.

Pearson correlation coefficient between strategic information systems and competitive advantage

Variable	Test	Strategic Information Systems	Competitive advantage
Strategic Information Systems	Pearson correlation	1	0.332^**
	Sig.		0.001
	Pearson correlation	0.332^**	1
Competitive advantage	Sig.	0.001
Number	N	97	97

1 ** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.

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Table 9.

Determination coefficient

Hypotheses	Correlation coefficient R	R²	R² adjusted	Standard error of estimation
H1	0.332^a	0.110	0.101	0.34115
H1(a)	0.272^a	0.074	0.064	0.47379
H1(b)	0.151^a	0.023	0.013	0.45346
H1(c)	0.068^a	0.005	-0.006	0.48273
H1(d)	0.189^a	0.036	0.025	0.63983
H1(e)	0.506^a	0.256	0.248	0.41088

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Table 10.

Analysis of variance Anova

Hypotheses	Total squares	The degree of freedom	Average squares	F value	P value
H1	1.367	1	1.367	11.745	0.001^b
H1(a)	1.708	1	1.708	7.610	0.007^b
H1(b)	0.456	1	0.456	2.219	0.140^b
H1(c)	0.102	1	0.102	0.436	0.511^b
H1(d)	1.434	1	1.434	3.502	0.064^b
H1(e)	5.509	1	5.509	32.630	0.000^b

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Table 11.

Regression coefficient

Prototype	Type	(Non-Standard transactions B)	(Standard error)	(Beta Standard coefficients	t	Sig
	(Fixed)	1.458	0.186		7.861	0.000
1 (H1)	(SIS)	0.278	0.081	0.332	3.427	0.001
	(Fixed)	1.294	0.258		5.021	0.000
1 H1(a)	(SIS)	0.311	0.113	0.272	2.759	0.007
	(Fixed)	1.771	0.247		7.183	0.000
1 H1(b)	(SIS)	0.161	0.108	0.151	1.489	0.140
	(Fixed)	1.859	0.262		7.081	0.000
1 H1(c)	(SIS)	0.076	0.115	0.068	0.660	0.511
	(Fixed)	1.859	0.262		7.081	0.000
1 H1(d)	(SIS)	0.076	0.115	0.068	0.660	0.511
	(Fixed)	0.715	0.223		3.201	0.002
1 H1(e)	(SIS)	0.559	0.098	0.506	5.712	0.000

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Table 12.

Hypothesis testing summary

Hypotheses	Relationship test	Analysis of variance + regression coefficient and determination
H1	Medium	Accept
H1(a)	Medium	Accept
H1(b)	Weak	Reject
H1(c)	Weak	Reject
H1(d)	Weak	Reject
H1(e)	Medium	Accept

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mdke-2025-0020 | Journal eISSN: 2392-8042

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Language: English

Page range: 357 - 375

Submitted on: Sep 22, 2025

Accepted on: Nov 14, 2025

Published on: Dec 22, 2025

Published by: Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative

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Keywords:

information systems,

strategy,

strategic information systems,

competitive,

advantage,

Port of Ténès

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Political economics,

Macroeconomics,

Business management,

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Social sciences,

Sociology,

Labor, trade unions,

Sociology of economy, organizations, and industry

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