Agile software development methods have emerged in recent years and have become increasingly popular since the start of the century. While much research claims to study agile methods, the meaning of agility itself in software development is yet to be fully understood. Agility is viewed by some as the antithesis of plan, structure discipline and bureaucracy. This study aims to develop a better u...

As e-commerce offers new channels for companies to reach consumers, it also brings about significant challenges to the ability to response to customer changing needs, which is named “customer agility”. Both practitioners and researchers consider information management as a source of customer agility. Drawing on the information management literature, this research program attempts to propose an ...

The existing discourse on IT-enabled enterprise agility views the internal organizational processes of IT capability development and organizational learning as the primary means of attaining agility, but has neglected the new dynamics of competition in the present networked economy. As Digital Business Ecosystems (DBEs) may be crucial to enterprise agility for organizations engaged in intense, ...

Companies increasingly face turbulent and dynamic environments characterized by mostly unforeseeable changes. A viable strategy to survive in such environments is to strengthen organizational agility, which denotes the ability to quickly cope with continuous unanticipated change and to take advantage of opportunities in the environment. Serviceoriented architecture (SOA) accompanied by related ...

According to the hierarchical framework of organizational capabilities and the capability embeddedness view in dynamic capability theory, this study investigates how lower-order capabilities (i.e. knowledge management capability and information technology capability) influence higher-order capability (i.e. organizational agility), which finally lead to superior firm performance. Meanwhile, the ...

Firm agility is quickly becoming an essential capability for companies to effectively compete in hypercompetitive environments. At the same time, firms are using applications that enable close integration coupled with an increased ability to reconfigure processes. Such applications should manifest a balance between integration and reconfigurability. This is the concept of applications ambidexte...

This study develops a research model of how the technical, behavioral, and business capabilities of IT personnel are associated with IT infrastructure capabilities, and how the latter are associated with IT-dependent organizational agility, which is conceptualized as comprising IT-dependent system, information, and strategic agility. Analysis of crosssectional data collected from 293 IT manager...

As a force that leads the era of rapid technology advances, integrating global economy and changing customer needs, enterprise agility has attracted extensive attention from academia. The purpose of this study is to take Haier information system (IS) development from China as a case study to systematically research the process, reasons and characteristics of IS-enabled enterprise agility based ...

Implementation agility in Manufacturing Systems (MS) is one of the most important objectives for nowadays MS considering the complexity of environment. The agility implementation implies new characteristics as well as new implications not considered by the previous MS concept. These are: the dynamic reconfigurability of MS structure (at the first place), the pro-activity, the emergence (as inhe...

Business agility is often claimed as one of the primary benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). However neither this claim, nor the effect of individual SOA practices on business agility, has been empirically investigated in a systematic way. In this paper we explore the impact of architectural concerns, business process management, infrastructure support for impact analysis, loose co...