Purpose – The study sets out to examine the influence of individual factors (enjoyment in helping others and knowledge self-efficacy), organizational factors (top management support and organizational rewards) and technology factors (information and communication technology use) on knowledge sharing processes and whether more leads to superior firm innovation capability. Design/methodology/appr...

It is with great interest for information systems researchers and practitioners regarding the contribution of information technology investment to firm performance. This study focuses on the impact of the implementation of knowledge management systems (KMS) on firm performance. Although many organizations have implemented KMS, there is little empirical evidence of KMS on firm performance. This ...

Green IT has been widely discussed in both technical and administrative areas. A major gap that exists in the Green IT literature today is the absence of a theoretical framework. Such framework can be used to assist organisations in assessing their capability to undertake Green IT to support the firm’s competitive advantage. This study attempts to bridge this gap by developing and proposing an ...

Green IT has been widely discussed in both technical and administrative areas. A major gap that exists in the Green IT literature today is the absence of a theoretical framework. Such framework can be used to assist organisations in assessing their capability to undertake Green IT to support the firm’s competitive advantage. This study attempts to bridge this gap by developing and proposing an ...

This study employs the framework of the resource-based theory (RBT), and investigates the process by which firms can realize the potential value of their alliance management capability. In this process, co-exploration and co-exploitation are regarded as the two main strategic actions needed to leverage alliance management capability. Analyses of multisource, time-lagged data on 172 Finnish manu...

The resource-based view of the firm attributes superior firm performance to organizational resources that are valuable, rare, non-substitutable, and difficult to imitate. Aligned with this view, the authors contend that both information technology (IT) and knowledge management (KM) comprise critical organizational resources that contribute to superior firm performance. The authors also examine ...

This paper builds analytical frameworks in order to examine the role of key features of the underlying learning processes in influencing inter-firm differences in technological capability-accumulation paths in the latecomer context. This relationship is examined in two of the largest steel firms in Brazil over their lifetimes of 40 and 60 years. These issues have been addressed, individually or...