Information technology is generally considered an enabler of a firm’s agility. A typical premise is that greater IT investment enables a firm to be more agile. However, it is not uncommon that IT can also hinder and sometimes even impede organizational agility. We propose and theorize this frequently observed but understudied IT–agility contradiction by which IT may enable or impede agility. We...

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...

Purpose: Manufacturing MSMEs are in need to identify new ideas and work on implement them into their process create or improved products. Innovation management is a prerequisite has direct effect firm’s performance. allows firms secure market position value by making customers. This study attempts find the relationship between innovative capabilities performance manufacturing how commercial of ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate three issues: how does an innovative search (local and boundary-spanning search) impact firm innovation performance latecomers; capability reconfiguration (capability evolution substitution) mediates the relationship between performance; technological leapfrogging process (initial stage, following synchronization stage leading stage) moderate ...

Post-M&A IT integration capability is a different construct compared to IT integration capability in the supply chain presented in prior literature (e.g., Rai et al. 2006; Rai and Tang 2010; Ward and Zhou 2006). IT integration capability in the supply chain refers to the firm’s ability to integrate systems, data, and information with the suppliers’ (customers’) systems, data, and information (R...

Article history: Received 24 February 2010 Received in revised form 18 March 2011 Accepted 28 March 2011 Available online 19 April 2011 Previous research efforts suggested that firms' overall e-business success tends to deliver greater organizational performance. However, few researchers examined how a firm leverages e-business investment to gain greater e-business success. Even fewer researche...

Drawing on crisis management and organizational resilience literature, this study adopts a firm’s capability-based perspective of to examine how different sets firm-based resilient capabilities firm has developed can help achieve sustainable performance during crisis. We took configurational approach applied the fsQCA method various combinations financial, cognitive, behavioral as causal condit...