Article reviews
Leveraging big data analytics to improve quality of care in healthcare organizations: A configurational perspective
Yichuan Wang. LeeAnn Kung. Suraksha Gupta. Sena Ozdemir. (2019), British Journal of Management , 30 (2) , 362-388.
This study investigates how combinations of big data analytics (BDA) capabilities and other organizational elements lead to improved healthcare performance.
IT competence Data & Business analytics
Big data analytics: Understanding its capabilities and potential benefits for healthcare organizations
Yichuan Wang. LeeAnn Kung. Terry Anthony Byrd. (2018), Technological Forecasting and Social Change , 126 , 3-13.
This study identifies big data analytics capabilities and explores the potential benefits they may bring to healthcare organizations. The results provide support in formulating more effective data-driven analytics strategies.
Information systems strategy Data & Business analytics
Exploring the path to big data analytics success in healthcare
Yichuan Wang. Nick Hajli. (2017), Journal of Business Research , 70 , 287-299.
This study investigates how healthcare organizations can capture business value from big data analytics. It explains how big data analytics capabilities can be developed and what benefits that can be obtained by these capabilities in healthcare organizations.
Data & Business analytics
Increasing firm agility through the use of data analytics: The role of fit
Maryam Ghasemaghaei. Khaled Hassanein. Ofir Turel. (2017), Decision Support Systems , 101 , 95-105.
This article reports on a study investigating how data analytics use influences firm agility, and how this effect is moderated by the extent of congruence between data analytics tools and the users, data, and tasks.
Organizational agility IT competence Data & Business analytics
Does big data enhance firm innovation competency? The mediating role of data-driven insights
Maryam Ghasemaghaei. Goran Calic. (2019), Journal of Business Research , 104 , 69-84.
This study investigates the impact of big data characteristics (i.e. velocity, variety, veracity, and volume) on data-driven insight generation and innovation competency of organizations.
IT and innovation Data & Business analytics
Big data analytics capabilities and innovation: The mediating role of dynamic capabilities and moderating effect of the environment
Patrick Mikalef. Maria Boura. George Lekakos. John Krogstie. (2019), British Journal of Management , 30 (2) , 272-298.
This study examines the relationship between big data analytics capability (BDAC) and capabilities for radical and incremental innovation. BDAC refers to the ability of an organization to capture and analyse data towards the generation of insights by effectively orchestrating and deploying its data, technology, and talent.
Organizational agility IT and innovation Data & Business analytics
How big data analytics enables service innovation: Materiality, affordance, and the individualization of service
Christiane Lehrer. Alexander Wieneke. Jan vom Brocke. Reinhard Jung. Stefan Seidel. (2018), Journal of Management Information Systems , 35 (2) , 424-460.
This article reports on case studies of four organizations from the insurance, banking, telecommunications, and e-commerce (travel) industries. The study shows how technologies supporting big data analytics (BDA) enable innovation in terms of improved service individualization.
IT and innovation Data & Business analytics
Discriminating IT Governance
Amrit Tiwana. Stephen K. Kim. (2015), Information Systems Research , 26 (4) , 637-874.
This article investigates how the interplay between a firm’s IT governance choices (i.e. which department makes what IT decisions) and the IT unit’s and line functions’ peripheral knowledge (i.e. one department’s knowledge in the other’s domain) shapes IT strategic agility.
IT competence Business – IT alignment
Aligning with new digital strategy: A dynamic capabilities approach
Adrian Yeow. Christina Soh. Rina Hansen. (2018), Journal of Strategic Information Systems , 27 (1) , 43-58.
This article examines the IT alignment process in an organization that augments its pure business-to-business model with an Internet-based business-to-consumer digital strategy. It seeks to answer the question of how the aligning process unfolds through organizational actions in a digital strategy context.
Information systems strategy Digital transformation Business – IT alignment
Building dynamic capabilities for digital transformation: An ongoing process of strategic renewal
Karl S.R. Warner. Maximilian Wäger. (2019), Long Range Planning , 52 (3) , 326-349.
This article explores how incumbent firms in traditional industries build dynamic capabilities for digital transformation. The study emphasizes the senior leader’s point of view on the practice of strategic activities for digital transformation.
Digital transformation Digital leadership IT competence