Sustaining IT advantage: the role of structural differences
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on the strategic use of information systems
Issues and opinion on structural equation modeling
MIS Quarterly
An Empirical Examination of the Concern for Information Privacy Instrument
Information Systems Research
The Value of Information Sharing in a Two-Level Supply Chain
Management Science
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
Integration of association rules and ontologies for semantic query expansion
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Journal of Management Information Systems
Coordinating for Flexibility in e-Business Supply Chains
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information and Management
Information Systems Research
Validating instruments in MIS research
MIS Quarterly
An empirical investigation of net-enabled business value
MIS Quarterly
Organizational information systems competences in small and medium-sized enterprises
Information and Management
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Organizations have increasingly invested money in information technology IT in order to improve their agility. It is generally believed that organizations with greater IT investment tend to be more agile to response to environmental changes. However, the issue of whether IT is an enabler or impeder of organizational agility still remains unresolved. Drawing upon resource-based view theory and the literatures of information systems and supply chain management, the authors develop and test a theoretical model that integrates IT capability, supply chain capability and organizational agility. The authors propose that IT capability enables the development of a higher level of supply chain capability which is embedded within inter-firm processes and in turn enhances organizational agility. Structural equation modelling is employed to test their theoretical conceptualization of 310 Australian fast-growth small-to-medium enterprises across different industrial sectors. The results show that IT capability does contribute to firm agility through enhancing inter-firm supply chain processes such as integration, information sharing and coordination. This research highlights the role of IT-enabled intermediated processes and the ways in which IT is used by firms to enhance core business processes.