Name
Title | ||
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Shaping agility through digital options: reconceptualizing the role of information technology in contemporary firms |
Abstract | ||
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Agility is vital to the innovation and competitive performance of firms in contemporary business environments. Firms are increasingly relying on information technologies, including process, knowledge, and communication technologies, to enhance their agility. The purpose of this paper is to broaden understanding about the strategic role of IT by examining the nomological network of influences through which IT impacts firm performance. By drawing upon recent thinking in the strategy, entrepreneurship, and IT management literatures, this paper uses a multitheoretic lens to argue that information technology investments and capabilities influence firm performance through three significant organizational capabilities (agility, digital options, and entrepreneurial alertness) and strategic processes (capability-building, entrepreneurial action, and coevolutionary adaptation). We also propose that these dynamic capabilities and strategic processes impact the ability of firms to launch many and varied competitive actions and that, in turn, these competitive actions are a significant antecedent of firm performance. Through our theorizing, we draw attention to a significant and reframed role of IT as a digital options generator in contemporary firms. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2003 | MIS Quarterly | shaping agility,strategic processes impact,information technology,it management literature,digital option,competitive performance,significant antecedent,strategic process,significant organizational capability,competitive action,strategic role,contemporary firm,firm performance,it management,process capability,digital options,communication technology |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Entrepreneurship,Nomological network,Information technology,Computer science,Dynamic capabilities,Knowledge management,Knowledge capital,Information technology management,Process capital,Alertness | Journal | 27 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
2 | 0276-7783 | 804 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
29.85 | 19 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| V. Sambamurthy | 1 | 2839 | 143.89 |
| Anandhi Bharadwaj | 2 | 1252 | 48.21 |
| Varun Grover | 3 | 5604 | 339.27 |