Title
The role of information governance in big data analytics driven innovation
Abstract
The age of big data analytics is now here, with companies increasingly investing in big data initiatives to foster innovation and outperform competition. Nevertheless, while researchers and practitioners started to examine the shifts that these technologies entail and their overall business value, it is still unclear whether and under what conditions they drive innovation. To address this gap, this study draws on the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and information governance theory to explore the interplay between a firm’s big data analytics capabilities (BDACs) and their information governance practices in shaping innovation capabilities. We argue that a firm’s BDAC helps enhance two distinct types of innovative capabilities, incremental and radical capabilities, and that information governance positively moderates this relationship. To examine our research model, we analyzed survey data collected from 175 IT and business managers. Results from partial least squares structural equation modelling analysis reveal that BDACs have a positive and significant effect on both incremental and radical innovative capabilities. Our analysis also highlights the important role of information governance, as it positively moderates the relationship between BDAC’s and a firm’s radical innovative capability, while there is a nonsignificant moderating effect for incremental innovation capabilities. Finally, we examine the effect of environmental uncertainty conditions in our model and find that information governance and BDACs have amplified effects under conditions of high environmental dynamism.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.im.2020.103361
Information & Management
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Big data analytics capabilities,Information governance,Incremental innovation,Radical innovation,Environmental uncertainty,FIMIX-PLS
Journal
57
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0378-7206
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
42
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patrick Mikalef115525.47
Maria Boura251.06
George Lekakos341432.74
John Krogstie41234129.93