Information systems (IS) development is becoming increasingly more geographically dispersed. Although process rigor, process standardization, and process agility are generally believed to have a positive impact on software development, it has not been well understood how these process capabilities affect distributed IS development. More important, no prior research has investigated their intera...

Business agility has been considered as one of the key organizational capabilities in the modern business environment. The current research indicates that information technologies (IT) can help firms develop agility and in turn agility can improve firm performance, but how IT leads to agility and superior performance and under what circumstances is an ongoing consideration. In particular, while...

Information technology is generally considered an enabler of a firm’s agility. A typical premise is that greater IT investment enables a firm to be more agile. However, it is not uncommon that IT can also hinder and sometimes even impede organizational agility. We propose and theorize this frequently observed but understudied IT–agility contradiction by which IT may enable or impede agility. We...

As businesses strive to respond to customer demand at an acceptable cost in the face of market turbulence and volatility, interest in supply chain agility as the ability to address such market uncertainties has grown. As a research in progress paper, we will examine the ways in which supply chain agility is enabled through IT-enabled information processing capabilities and advance prior work in...

Although the relationship of information technology (IT) capability and knowledge capability with organizational agility has been documented, limited information is available on the extent to which these two capabilities affect organizational agility. Attempts to understand the effect of IT and knowledge capability on organizational agility in the presence of contextual factors have also been f...

While information technologies have been taken as the competitive tool in improving supply chain performance, its investment cannot guarantee to meet firms’ performance expectations. Our understanding about the mechanisms by which IT affects supply chain performance remains unclear. Based on the perspective of dynamic capabilities theory, we derive a model to examine the effects of a firm’s IT ...

By reflecting on the polymorphous aspects of firms’ strategic responses to environmental dynamics, we differentiate two distinctive types of agility, namely, entrepreneurial agility (anticipating and proactive) and adaptive agility (sensing and reactive). In this light, we investigate how and why firms’ IT and operational capabilities can enable these two types of agility, thereby leading to su...

Organizational agility has recently received a great deal of attention as it is seen as a significant business capability which allows firms to respond flexibly to today’s rapidly changing business environment. However, it is still unclear as to how and why specific information technology (IT) investments can enable organizational agility and thus lead to a firm’s long-term competitive success....

In this paper, we identify the necessary capabilities of the IT function to create agility in existing information systems. Agility is the ability to quickly sense and respond to environment perturbations. We contrast the agility perspective from a widely used industry framework with research perspectives on agility in the IS literature. We suggest Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) is a useful m...

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...