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Article reviews:
Information technology competencies, organizational agility, and firm performance: Enabling and facilitating roles

Anindita Chakravarty.  Rajdeep Grewal.  Vallabh Sambamurthy.  (2013),  Information Systems Research , 24 (4) , 976-997.

This article investigates the relationship between IT competencies and two types of organizational agility (adaptive and entrepreneurial). It shows that the impact of IT competencies depends on the level of environmental dynamism. The empirical context of the study is business-to-business electronic marketplaces.


Organizational agility IT competence

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

Agility in responding to disruptive digital innovation: Case study of an SME

Calvin M.L. Chan.  Say Yen Teoh.  Adrian Yeow.  Gary Pan.  (2018),  Information Systems Journal , 29 (2) , 436-455.

This paper reports on a case study investigating how an innovative small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) achieved agility to respond to disruptive digital innovation.


Organizational agility IT and innovation



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