NEBIC: A dynamic capabilities theory for assessing net-enablement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wheeler, BC
• 署名单位: Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
• 刊物名称: INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7047
• DOI: 10.1287/isre.13.2.125.89
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 125-146
• 关键词: RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; information-technology; Competitive advantage; USEFUL PERSPECTIVE; STRATEGY RESEARCH; competence; INNOVATION; complexity; EVOLUTION; commerce

摘要

We propose the Net-Enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) as an applied dynamic capabilities theory for measuring, predicting, and understanding a firm's ability to create customer value through the business use of digital networks. The theory incorporates both a variance and process view of net-enabled business innovation. It identifies four sequenced constructs: Choosing new IT, Matching Economic Opportunities with technology, Executing Business Innovation for Growth, and Assessing Customer Value, along with the processes and events that interrelate them as a cycle. The sequence of these theorized relationships for net-enablement (NE)(1) asserts that choosing IT precedes rather than aligns with corporate strategy. The theory offers a logically consistent and falsifiable basis for grounding research programs on metrics of net-enabled business innovation.