IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAPITAL ON FIRM SCOPE AND PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF ASSET CHARACTERISTICS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ray, Gautam; Xue, Ling; Barney, Jay B.
• 署名单位: University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Memphis; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.0874
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 1125-1147
• 关键词: international diversification; corporate diversification; Institutional structure; financial performance; transaction costs; BUSINESS; strategy; capabilities; RESOURCES; profitability

摘要

This research draws on transaction cost and resource-based theory to examine how information technology (IT) capital moderates the relationship between different types of assets and firm scope-both vertical integration and diversification. The analysis suggests that IT capital enables firms with narrowly valuable assets to be less vertically integrated and less diversified, and enables firms with broadly valuable assets to be more vertically integrated and more diversified. The moderating influence of IT capital on the relationship between different types of assets and firms' vertical and product-market scope is consistent with transaction cost as well as resource-based traditions.