How information technology influences opportunity exploration and exploitation firm's capabilities

被引：121
作者：
Benitez, Jose [1 ,2 ]
Llorens, Javier [2 ]
Braojos, Jessica [2 ]
机构：
[1] Rennes Sch Business, Rennes, France
[2] Univ Granada, Sch Business, Sch Human Resource Management, Dept Management, Granada, Spain
来源：
INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT | 2018年 / 55卷 / 04期
关键词：
IT infrastructure; Business flexibility; Exploration and exploitation; Business opportunities; Business value of IT; SUPPLY CHAIN; INNOVATION PERFORMANCE; STRATEGIC FLEXIBILITY; ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY; MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; IMPACT; AGILITY; SYSTEMS; ANTECEDENTS;
D O I：
10.1016/j.im.2018.03.001
中图分类号：
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号：
0812 ;
摘要：
Understanding how and why some firms have proficiency in exploring and exploiting opportunities is a cutting edge research problem. Our central thesis is that information technology (IT) performs a key role in firms' opportunity exploration and exploitation. We test the proposed theory using partial least squares path modeling on a combination of survey and secondary data from 203 Spanish firms. We find that: (1) IT infrastructure provides the foundation to build business experimentation and the flexibility to sense and explore business opportunities; and (2) IT-enabled business flexibility helps firms to develop the operational proficiency to exploit opportunities and increase their performance.
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页码：508 / 523
页数：16
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