| Title |
The Formation And Value Of It-Enabled Resources: Antecedents And Consequences Of Synergistic Relationships |
| ID_Doc |
69849 |
| Authors |
Nevo, S; Wade, MR |
| Title |
The Formation And Value Of It-Enabled Resources: Antecedents And Consequences Of Synergistic Relationships |
| Year |
2010 |
| Published |
Mis Quarterly, 34, 1 |
| DOI |
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| Abstract |
This paper informs the literature on the business value of information technology by conceptualizing a path from IT assets-that is, commodity-like or off-the-shelf information technologies-to, sustainable competitive advantage. This path suggests that IT assets can play a strategic role when they are combined with organizational resources to create IT-enabled resources. To the extent that relationships between IT assets and organizational resources are synergistic, the ensuing IT-enabled resources are capable of positively affecting firms' sustainable competitive advantage via their improved strategic potential. This is an important contribution since IT-related organizational benefits have been hard to demonstrate despite attempts to study them through a variety of methods and theoretical lenses. This paper synthesizes systems theory and the resource-based view of the firm to build a unified conceptual model linking IT assets with firm-level benefits. Several propositions are derived from the model and their implications for IS research and practice are discussed. |
| Author Keywords |
Business value of IT; systems theory; resource-based view of the firm; IT-enabled resources; emergent capabilities; synergy; strategic potential; compatibility; integration effort |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000275074600008 |
| WoS Category |
Computer Science, Information Systems; Information Science & Library Science; Management |
| Research Area |
Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science; Business & Economics |
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