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- Title
THE FORMATION AND VALUE OF IT-ENABLED RESOURCES: ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF SYNERGISTIC RELATIONSHIPS.
- Authors
Nevo, Saggi; Wade, Michael R.
- 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.
- Subjects
INFORMATION technology &; economics; RESOURCE-based theory of the firm; COMPETITIVE advantage in business; INFORMATION resources management; INNOVATION adoption; THEORY of the firm
- Publication
MIS Quarterly, 2010, Vol 34, Issue 1, p163
- ISSN
0276-7783
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/20721419