Resource Structuring or Capability Building? An Empirical Study of the Business Value of Information Technology

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wang, Nianxin; Liang, Huigang; Zhong, Weijun; Xue, Yajiong; Xiao, Jinghua
• 署名单位: Jiangsu University of Science & Technology; University of North Carolina; East Carolina University; Southeast University - China; Sun Yat Sen University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0742-1222
• DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222290211
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 325-367
• 关键词: SUSTAINED COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; common method variance; firm performance; CORE COMPETENCE; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; strategic alignment; systems resources; view; antecedents; CHINA

摘要

This paper examines two ways to create business value of information technology (BVIT): resource structuring and capability building. We develop a research model positing that IT resources and IT capabilities enhance a firm's performance by providing support to its competitive strategies and core competencies, and the strengths of these supports vary in accord with environmental dynamism. The model is empirically tested using data collected from 296 firms in China. It is found that IT resources generate more business effects in stable environments than in dynamic environments, while IT capabilities generate more business effects in dynamic environments than in stable environments. The results suggest that the BVIT creation mechanism in stable environments is primarily resource structuring while the mechanism in dynamic environments is primarily capability building.