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Understanding the link between information technology capability and organizational agility: An empirical examination
Ying Lu. K. Ramamurthy. (2011), Management Information Systems Quarterly , 35 , 931-954.
This article concerns the relationship between IT capability and organizational agility. IT capability refers to a firm’s ability to acquire, deploy, combine, and reconfigure IT resources in support and enhancement of business strategies and work processes. Organizational agility is a firm’s ability to cope with rapid, relentless, and uncertain changes and thrive in a competitive environment of continually and unpredictably changing opportunities.
Organizational agility
Leveraging customer involvement for fueling innovation: The role of relational and analytical information processing capabilities
Terence J. V. Saldanha. Sunil Mithas. M. S. Krishnan. (2017), Management Information Systems Quarterly , 41 (1) , 367-396.
This article seeks to increase the understanding of how IT enables customer-focused innovation in organizations. It examines how IT capabilities affect the relationship between customer involvement and innovation.
IT and innovation
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
IT assets, organizational capabilities, and firm performance: How resource allocations and organizational differences explain performance variation
Sinan Aral. Peter Weill. (2007), Organization Science , 18 (5) , 749-883.
The study seeks to explain firm level variations in the returns to IT investments and investigates how IT investment allocations and IT capabilities influence performance.
Information systems strategy IT competence
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
How to improve firm performance using big data analytics capability and business strategy alignment?
Shahriar Akter. Samuel Fosso Wamba. Angappa Gunasekaran. Rameshwar Dubey. Stephen J. Childe. (2016), International Journal of Production Economics , 182 , 113-131.
This study aims to examine the role of big data analytics capability (BDAC) for firm performance. It identifies important dimensions of BDAC and emphasizes the complementarities between them for improved performance and sustained competitive advantage.
IT competence Business – IT alignment Data & Business analytics
How information technology strategy and investments influence firm performance: Conjecture and empirical evidence
Sunil Mithas. Roland T. Rust. (2016), Management Information Systems Quarterly , 40 (1) , 223-245.
This article investigates how IT strategy and IT investments influence profitability and the market value of the firm. IT strategy refers to the dominant strategic objective that the firm emphasizes, which can be revenue expansion, cost reduction, or a dual emphasis in which both goals are pursued.
Information systems strategy
Exploring the relationships between IT competence, innovation capacity and organizational agility
Ravichandran, T. (2018), Journal of Strategic Information Systems , 27 (1) , 22-42.
The results of the study show that a firm’s IT competence and innovation capacity are significant enablers for organizational agility, which again is positively related with firm performance.
Organizational agility IT competence
Enhancing the measurement of information technology (IT) business alignment and its influence on company performance
Jerry Luftman. Kalle Lyytinen. Tal ben Zvi. (2017), Journal of Information Technology , 32 (1) , 26–46.
This article develops a measure of IT-business alignment and defines the scope and nature of activities that contribute to alignment.
Information systems strategy Business – IT alignment
Enabling firm performance through business intelligence and analytics: A dynamic capabilities perspective
Russell Torres. Anna Sidorova. Mary C. Jones. (2018), Information & Management , 55 (7) , 822-839.
This study examines the relationship between firm performance and business intelligence and analytics (BI&A), which is defined as a variety of organizational information practices that rely on the use of information technologies and involve the application of analytical techniques.
IT competence Data & Business analytics Organizational agility
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