Drawing upon the resource-based theory of IT business value research, a firm’s ability to effectively integrate and deploy IT resources in combination with other resources, can create unique competitive advantage and intangible assets for a company. This study aims to investigate the impact of IT governance on IT capability, and the effects of both IT governance and IT capability on firms' sust...

This paper provides a framework comprising of research agenda explicating the relations between IT Capability and Firm Innovation. Firm innovation is conceptualized as a combination of three constructs: networks, capabilities (absorptive capacity), and commercialization of innovations (CI). These three constructs have received a very lukewarm response from the IS research community. Inclusion o...

In a long-term contract with moral hazard, the liquidation of the firm can arise as the outcome of the optimal contract. However, if the future production capability or market opportunities remain unchanged, liquidation may not be free from renegotiation. Will the firm ever be liquidated if we allow for renegotiation? This paper shows that the firm can still be liquidated even though liquidatio...

Implementing knowledge management capability (KMC) effectively is becoming an important strategic issue for organizational success. However, our understanding about the underlying mechanism of KMC on firm performance is still limited. Based on the dynamic capabilities perspective, this study tries to explore how KMC (i.e., exploration KMC and exploitation KMC) affects firm performance through t...

Strategic information systems planning (SISP) helps companies to align their IT systems with their business plans. It claims to enable companies to gain competitive advantages. The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm might help to understand how and why. Drawing on prior research we believe that strategic IT planning is a dynamic capability, enabling a firm to reconfigure its resource configu...

Despite the significant academic and corporate interest in sports sponsorships, and despite the significant financial stakes these present (sports sponsorship is almost a $15 billion business in North America alone), the literature is equivocal both on the impact as well as on the determinants of the effectiveness of these activities. While some papers report sports sponsorships enhance shareho...

Information technology (IT) is regarded as a facilitator for both small and large firms to speed up transactions between firms and their suppliers and customers, achieve real-time communication, lower transaction costs, and enhance speed and flexibility. However, understanding whether and how IT helps small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) to create business value still remains unclear. Drawing upo...

Several studies support the positive link between information technology capability and firm performance, including Bharadwaj (2000) and Santhanam and Hartono (2003), which appeared in MIS Quarterly. We conducted a study to see if this link is still statistically significant. It is now over a decade since the first study was published, during which several significant developments in the IT ind...

This paper provides an integrative analysis of the drivers of vertical scope, and formalizes theory on capability-driven integration, focusing on the following questions: (1) How does the distribution of individual firm capabilities along a value chain affect vertical scope? (2) How do transaction costs interact with capability distributions in vertically linked segments to determine scope at t...

News reports that carry positive or negative sentiment about a firm influence the firm’s stock price performance. This study examines the role of firm controllable marketing factors, namely, advertising spending and marketing capability, in moderating the relationship between news stories and firm stock returns. Drawing on a large panel data sample of over 7000 firmmonth observations, the resul...