TY - JOUR
T1 - How information technology influences opportunity exploration and exploitation firm's capabilities
AU - Benitez, Jose
AU - Llorens, Javier
AU - Braojos, Jessica
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was sponsored by the European Regional Development Fund (European Union) and the Government of Spain (Research Project ECO2013-47027-P and Research Grant FPU13/01643 ), the Regional Government of Andalusia (Research Project P11-SEJ-7294), and the COVIRAN-Prodware Chair of Digital Human Resource Strategy at the School of Human Resource Management of the University of Granada, Spain . This research was partially performed while the first author was affiliated with the University of Granada. This paper has benefited from the comments of Gautam Ray, Rita Walczuch, and Varun Grover.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Business flexibility
KW - Business opportunities
KW - Business value of IT
KW - Exploration and exploitation
KW - IT infrastructure
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U2 - 10.1016/j.im.2018.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.im.2018.03.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044002207
SN - 0378-7206
VL - 55
SP - 508
EP - 523
JO - Information and Management
JF - Information and Management
IS - 4
ER -