Do boards of directors foster strategic change? A dynamic managerial capabilities perspective

Managerial Entrenchment with Strategic Information Technology: A Dynamic Perspective

Some economic and informational problems associated with organizational information technology (It) spending may be attributed to managerial rent-seeking. Because of the unavoidable incompleteness of labor contracts, managers with misaligned incentives and budgetary discretion could entrench themselves through their non-value-maximizing adoption decisions. In order to boost their bargaining pow...

Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management

The dynamic capabilities framework analyzes the sources and methods of wealth creation and capture by private enterprise firms operating in environments of rapid technological change. The competitive advantage of firms is seen as resting on distinctive processes (ways of coordinating and combining), shaped by the firm’s (specific) asset positions (such as the firm’s portfolio of difficult-to-tr...

The Strategic Role of Information Technology Sourcing: a Dynamic Capabilities Perspective

Grounded in the theory of dynamic capabilities, our study offers a conceptualization of IS strategy that comprises two sets of dynamic capabilities: enterprise IT architecture dynamic capability and IT sourcing dynamic capability. We borrow from extant IS literature and define enterprise IT architecture dynamic capability as the capacity of an organization to purposefully extend, create or modi...

Organizational and Managerial Processes and the Development of Dynamic Capabilities

Developing Dynamic IT Capabilities – A Systems Perspective

Many organisations still have difficulty obtaining value from their IT spend. The literature indicates that two ways of improving this situation is via better strategic business/IS alignment and the development of a dynamic IS capability. It is argued that the development of these skills occurs within a complex, dynamic social system and have the characteristics of wicked problems and are poorl...