Strategic factor markets: expectations, luck, and business strategy
Management Science
Modeling coordination in organizations and markets
Management Science
Infrastructure: building a framework for corporate information handling
Infrastructure: building a framework for corporate information handling
Management strategies for information technology
Management strategies for information technology
Effective investment in information infrastructures
Information and Software Technology - Information and software economics
Japan's software factories: a challenge to U.S. management
Japan's software factories: a challenge to U.S. management
Strategic management of information technology investments: an options perspective
Strategic information technology management
Banking on information technology: converting IT spending into firm performance
Strategic information technology management
The role and value of information technology infrastructure: some empirical observations
Strategic information technology management
Object-oriented application frameworks
Communications of the ACM
Lessons learned building reusable OO frameworks for distributed software
Communications of the ACM
Leveraging the new infrastructure: how market leaders capitalize on information technology
Leveraging the new infrastructure: how market leaders capitalize on information technology
Corporate Information Systems Management: Text and Cases
Corporate Information Systems Management: Text and Cases
Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation
Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation
Information systems management issues for the 1990s
MIS Quarterly
Valuing information technology infrastructures: a growth options approach
Information Technology and Management
Analyzing Complementarities Using Software Stacks for Software Industry Acquisitions
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Managing architectural emergence: A conceptual model and simulation
Decision Support Systems
Information Resources Management Journal
The Impact of IT Personnel Skills on IS Infrastructure and Competitive IS
Information Resources Management Journal
Inception to Dissolution: E-Learning Initiative at an Indian Institute
Journal of Cases on Information Technology
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The strategic importance of building highly capable information technology IT infrastructure has become a crucial management issue of the 1990s and beyond. However, in spite of the numerous benefits attributed to IT infrastructure, these claims remain unsubstantiated. This problem is due, in part, to inadequate conceptualizations of IT infrastructure and its measurement as well as a lack of theoretical frameworks for explaining its impacts. To address these problems, this paper proposes a theoretical framework to justify the value creating potential of IT infrastructure investments. First, we provide a conceptual framework that describes the nature of IT infrastructure and its related components. Next, we discuss the role of IT infrastructure as a competitive weapon and identify three areas where it may create strategic value for the firm: responsiveness, innovativeness, and economies of scope. For each area, specific theories are used and research propositions are developed to guide future infrastructure research.