Researchers and practitioners regard information technology (IT) as a competitive tool. However, current knowledge on IT capability mechanisms that affect firm performance remains unclear. Based on the dynamic capabilities perspective and the view of a hierarchy of capabilities, this article proposes a model to examine how IT capabilities (i.e., flexible IT infrastructure and IT assimilation) a...

Service-based systems increasingly need adaptation capabilities to agilely respond to unexpected changes in their business or execution environment. Although service orientation constitutes a promising approach to achieve this goal, current methods and technologies do not fully support automatic and dynamic adaptation at runtime. In turn, the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), one of the preferred m...

We examine the relationship between the effectiveness of IT steering committee-driven IT governance initiatives and firm’s IT management and IT infrastructure related capabilities. We test these relationships empirically by a field survey of 216 firms. Results of this study suggest that a firms’ effectiveness of IT steering committee-driven IT governance initiatives positively relate to the lev...

This research examines the strategic impact of enterprise systems (ES) from a dynamic capability perspective. This perspective, which evolves from the resource-based view of the firm, suggests that performance differences among firms in an industry is related to a firm’s capability in creatively configuring, coordinating, integrating, and transforming firm resources. ES is considered a valuable...

d: m.a. of business management. university of isfahan . [email protected] e: isfahan university of medical sciences , [email protected] knowledge as one of the greatest factors in creating value and competitive advantage, has led organizations to show great tendency toward programs of knowledge management. understanding the relationship between infrastructural capabilities and process c...

Techniques and tools for specific quality-attribute issues are becoming a mainstream in architecture design. This approach is practical for evaluating the architecture in early stages but also for planning improvements for it. Thus, we believe that one challenge is the integration of the individual capabilities of quality-attribute techniques. This paper presents our research work on a design a...

With an increasingly mobile society and the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless networks, wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging healthcare applications. However, before wireless infrastructure can be used in a wide scale, there are several challenges that must be overcome. These include how to best utilise the capabilities of diverse wireless technologies and how...