Assessing IT Business Value Within Interorganizational Processes

As information technology has evolved over the past four decades, so too have the means by which organizations leveraged IT to enable new and efficient business processes for value creation. Understanding and assessing the value of these IT and organizational co-innovations is vital in informing future IT investment decisions. While valuable to managerial decision making, extant research examining Internet-enabled interorganizational innovations taking place in the competitive environment is nascent. The current network era necessitates a broader perspective of IT value, one that focuses on networked trading partners integrating technologies and business processes to improve efficiency and attain competitive advantage. In this researchin-progress study, we explore the processes of interfirm IT value generation in prevailing settings and generate associated propositions. The study is an important component of a larger program of research assessing value creation via today’s ubiquitous, interorganizational information technologies.