IT-ENABLED ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY AND FIRMS’ SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

One-Ki(Daniel) Lee; Vallabh Sambamurthy; Kai H. Lim; Kwok Kee Wei

IT-ENABLED ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY AND FIRMS’ SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

One-Ki(Daniel) Lee
, Vallabh Sambamurthy
, Kai H. Lim
, Kwok Kee Wei

Department of Information Systems

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

58 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

By reflecting on the polymorphous aspects of firms' strategic responses to environmental dynamics, we differentiate two distinctive types of agility, namely, entrepreneurial agility (anticipating and proactive) and adaptive agility (sensing and reactive). In this light, we investigate how and why firms' IT and operational capabilities can enable these two types of agility, thereby leading to sustainable competitive advantage. To empirically validate the proposed model, we conducted a large-scale field survey with multiple respondents in China, an emerging economy with a large variance in market uncertainty and IT maturity among companies. The results indicate that specific complementary relationships between IT and operational capabilities are the significant driving forces of each type of agility. The two types of agility are also found to be significant in leading to sustainable competitive advantage while their impacts differ. This study provides a better understanding of the strategic role of IT in contemporary businesses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICIS 2007 Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems
Publisher	Association for Information Systems
Publication status	Published - Dec 2007
Event	28th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2007 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 9 Dec 2007 → 12 Dec 2007

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Name	ICIS Proceedings - International Conference on Information Systems
Publisher	Association for Information Systems

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Conference	28th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2007
Place	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	9/12/07 → 12/12/07

UN SDGs

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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Research Keywords

Agility
Complementary relationship
IT capability
Operational innovation
Sustainable competitive advantage

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Lee, O.-KD., Sambamurthy, V., Lim, K. H., & Wei, K. K. (2007). IT-ENABLED ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY AND FIRMS’ SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. In ICIS 2007 Proceedings: Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems Article 91 (ICIS Proceedings - International Conference on Information Systems). Association for Information Systems. https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2007/91/

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Lee, O-KD, Sambamurthy, V, Lim, KH & Wei, KK 2007, IT-ENABLED ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY AND FIRMS’ SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. in ICIS 2007 Proceedings: Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems., 91, ICIS Proceedings - International Conference on Information Systems, Association for Information Systems, 28th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 9/12/07. <https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2007/91/>

IT-ENABLED ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY AND FIRMS’ SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. / Lee, One-Ki(Daniel); Sambamurthy, Vallabh; Lim, Kai H. et al.
ICIS 2007 Proceedings: Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems. Association for Information Systems, 2007. 91 (ICIS Proceedings - International Conference on Information Systems).

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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