NEBIC: A Dynamic Capabilities Theory for Assessing Net-Enablement

  • Authors:
  • Bradley C. Wheeler

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Information Systems Research
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We propose the Net-Enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) as an applied dynamic capabilities theory for measuring, predicting, and understanding a firm's ability to create customer value through the business use of digital networks. The theory incorporates both a variance and process view of net-enabled business innovation. It identifies four sequenced constructs: Choosing new IT, Matching Economic Opportunities with technology, Executing Business Innovation for Growth, and Assessing Customer Value, along with the processes and events that interrelate them as a cycle. The sequence of these theorized relationships for net-enablement (NE)脗鹿 asserts that choosing ITprecedes rather than aligns with corporate strategy. The theory offers a logically consistent and falsifiable basis for grounding research programs on metrics of net-enabled business innovation.