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....

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 ...

the electronic industry suffers a rapid changing and highly rival environment. thus, firms have an essential need to strive for acquiring the competitive advantage. strategy organizational agility (soa) is a tool which enables to assist firms to attain the competitive advantage. therefore, this study benchmarks the core competencies from a case study within the supply chain network and establis...

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...

features within the organization are vital part of its success; therefore, more and more to identify these features and how they impact on the output of the rapidly changing environment of today, it seems imperative. guided by the knowledge of the organization is the function of a human and organizational culture. knowledge management is the practice of corporate culture and how to build a cult...

Literature is divided on whether enterprise systems promote or hinder organizational agility. To the best of our knowledge, this paradox has never been rigorously theoretically analyzed nor empirically investigated. This paper seeks to address this paradox by leveraging upon innovation assimilation literature and knowledge based and capabilities based views of organizations. We propose a theore...