manufacturing industries of agricultural products, which constitute a considerable part of different countries’ economies, are seeking new profitable opportunities by increasing competition at the international level. organizational agility is new method and philosophy of production that seeks to react effectively to the variable and unpredictable environment and to utilize the changes as chanc...

Technology is most commonly associated with material things, tools or artifacts. But technology is also theoretically associated with routines, patterns of action that provide capabilities. Schatzki’s practice theory allows for an overarching perspective that ties tools as devices to routines in a broader social context and offers insights into technological change, in particular, in the inform...

in this study, the role of information technology in increasing the productivity of fars regional electric company has been reviewed.so, five roles of information technology have been selected and managers and expert’s perspective has been measured about them. for this purpose, a questionnaire has been prepared about productivity and information technology. the samples consists of 140 managers ...

The aim of the paper is to study the effects of a firm’s distinctive capabilities on internationalisation strategy and performance. The knowledge-based view of the firm is a dynamised extension to a well-known resource-based view of the firm, and it is seen as a useful approach in our study. In changing and unpredictable environments, in which small knowledge-intensive information and communica...

In the literature, the different ways of representing the capabilities initiated by organizational information technologies (IT) have been provided by IS researchers. Since they were developed for specific purposes, most of them are not likely to illustrate the multifarious values of organizational IT-based capabilities. To provide a comprehensive approach for defining IT-based capabilities, th...

‘‘Business development’’ is a corporate entrepreneurial capability (or competence) that has emerged in the Information Technology industry to support that industry’s practice of co-creation of value with customers and complementors. As a set of practices that link the firm’s value creating processes with its external environment, business development capabilities are a key factor in the success...

Grounded in the theory of dynamic capabilities, our study offers a conceptualization of IS strategy that comprises two sets of dynamic capabilities: enterprise IT architecture dynamic capability and IT sourcing dynamic capability. We borrow from extant IS literature and define enterprise IT architecture dynamic capability as the capacity of an organization to purposefully extend, create or modi...

Forty-percent of local companies in Malaysia failed within the first five years of company establishment (Leitrim, 2013). Some literature even reported a higher percentage of company failure, which was over 60%, in the first five years of establishments (Noor and Pi-Shen, 2009). These high percentages of failure reflect serious challenges and obstacles faced by domestic companies in the era of ...

Does the amount of competitive advantage provided by information technology vary with the extent thal an application leverages strategic resources or capabilities? A survey of insurance company executives was used to examine this proposition and to identify strategic resources and capabilities commonly enhanced by systems supporting competitive advantage. The results of this study suggest that ...