Potential Consequences of IT Disruptions on the Value of Companies
Potential Consequences of IT Disruptions on the Value of Companies

Author(s): Stoyan Stoyanov
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: IT disruption; finance; value; dependency
Summary/Abstract: The ever-increasing usage of technology and upsurge of tech companies brings attention to an important topic, related to the consequences of disruptions that may occur with these technologies. In this research paper the analysis is based on the effects these outages have on a company’s value, more specifically isolating potential consequences the latest outage would have on the affected company, based on an analysis of previous cases. These cases showed that the effects depend on the company itself, what are it functions in and the grade at which technology is integrated in its activities, and logically the most affected by tech disruptions are tech companies. These effects can be both monetary, as well as reputational and have a possibility of affecting the company’s value as well.

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