This paper attempts to operationalize and measure firm-specific capabilities using an extant conceptualization in the resource-based view (RBV) literature. Capabilities are conceived as the efficiency with which a firm employs a given set of resources (inputs) at its disposal to achieve certain objectives (outputs). We expand on extant theoretical literature on relative capabilities, by delinea...

The proponents of the resource-based view (RBV) have long argued that a firm gains sustainable competitive advantage from those resources and capabilities it controls and which are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and not substitutable. So, does information technology (IT) outsourcing strip companies of any competitive advantage that is attributed to IT? It has been said that information s...

Information privacy is an important information management issue that is increasingly challenging managers and policy makers. While many studies have investigated information privacy as an individual, sectoral, or national level phenomenon, there is a gap in our understanding of organizational approaches to developing and implementing policies and programs to manage customer information privacy...

Information technology investments and the management consulting industry witnessed unprecedented growth in the last decade. This led to regulators’ (SEC and Congress) allegations that consulting services that are provided by incumbent auditors may be disguised extra payments to auditors for favorable financial reporting. However, there may be alternative valid reasons for procurement of consul...

In the struggle to gain and sustain competitive advantages, companies develop certain resource bundles (known as strategic assets) which are fundamental to firm performance. More often than not, these strategic assets are knowledge-based assets involving organizational processes and human and social capital as opposed to physical assets. Increasingly, companies are turning to project management...

In current global economy with hyper competition in home market, access to foreign markets has become a must for most of SMEs; therefore, SMEs internationalization has received great attention. However, internationalization of SMEs from developing countries in general and rapid internationalization in particular has remained largely unsearched. This longitudinal study was carried out with the a...

Information Technology (IT) enabled transformation in an organization enhances the business value by improving its performance. Though a lot has been documented on this topic, a review of information systems literature reveal that the research on how e-government enabled transformation affects firm performance remains under-examined. With this motivation, this piece of research aims to focus on...

This paper presents an empirical study that examines the effects of dynamic IT capability and organizational culture on firm performance. More specifically, this study investigates the main effects of dynamic IT capability on firm performance, the main effects of organizational culture on firm performance, and the interaction effects between the two factors on firm performance. Adopting the Res...

The aim of this study is to examine how GHRM and organizational culture impact job performance in the Jordanian banking sector. also discusses previously mentioned elements related one another as they were incorporated into resource-based-view (RBV) theory. A thorough evaluation recent literature was included with regard quantitative results from looking at environment. result found a significa...

Although the literature on eco-friendly strategies followed by firms is abundant, focus reduce, reuse, and recycle (3Rs) policies as cornerstone of environmental sustainability scarce. This study examines 3Rs strategy among 143 large organizations in hospitality industry. We use resource-based view (RBV) firm theory to test strategy's determinants its impact business performance a suggested con...