Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
FARSYS: a knowledge-based system for managing strategic change
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on decision support in strategic management
IT capabilities: theoretical perspectives and empirical operationalization
ICIS '99 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems
The Effects of Coupling it and Work Process Strategies in Redesign Projects
Organization Science
Information Systems Research
Exploring the relationship between information technology and business process reengineering
Information and Management
Real Options and IT Platform Adoption: Implications for Theory and Practice
Information Systems Research
IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
The leveraging influence of strategic alignment on IT investment: an empirical examination
Information and Management
Enterprise agility and the enabling role of information technology
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
Change factors requiring agility and implications for IT
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
Change in the Presence of Residual Fit: Can Competing Frames Coexist?
Organization Science
Emergent by Design: Performance and Transformation at Infosys Technologies
Organization Science
Journal of Management Information Systems
Coordinating for Flexibility in e-Business Supply Chains
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information Systems Research
A Control Theory Perspective on Agile Methodology Use and Changing User Requirements
Information Systems Research
Validating instruments in MIS research
MIS Quarterly
Innovating mindfully with information technology
MIS Quarterly
How does social software change knowledge management? Toward a strategic research agenda
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Developing Organizational Agility through IT and Supply Chain Capability
Journal of Global Information Management
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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 develop the premise that organizations need to develop superior firm-wide IT capability to successfully manage their IT resources to realize agility. We refine the conceptualization and measurement of IT capability as a latent construct reflected in its three dimensions: IT infrastructure capability, IT business spanning capability, and IT proactive stance. We also conceptualize two types of organizational agility: market capitalizing agility and operational adjustment agility. We then conduct a matched-pair field survey of business and information systems executives in 128 organizations to empirically examine the link between a firm's IT capability and agility. Business executives responded to measurement scales of the two types of agility and organizational context variables, and IS executives responded to measurement scales of IT capabilities and IS context variables. The results show a significant positive relationship between IT capability and the two types of organizational agility. We also find a significant positive joint effect of IT capability and IT spending on operational adjustment agility but not on market capitalizing agility. The findings suggest a possible resolution to the contradictory effect of IT on agility: while more IT spending does not lead to greater agility, spending it in such a way as to enhance and foster IT capabilities does. Our study provides initial empirical evidence to better understand essential IT capabilities and their relationship with organizational agility. Our findings provide a number of useful implications for research and managerial practices.