A microeconomic approach to the measurement of information technology value
Journal of Management Information Systems
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
Technology investment and business performance
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
The substitution of information technology for other factors of production: a Firm Level Analysis
Management Science - Special issue: Frontier research on information systems and economics
The impact of information technology on coordination costs: implications for firm productivity
ICIS '97 Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Information systems
Information Systems Research
Firm Characteristics and Investments in Information Technology: Scale Andscope Effects
Information Systems Research
The Performance Impacts of Quick Response and Strategic Alignment in Specialty Retailing
Information Systems Research
Alignment Between Business and IS Strategies: A Study of Prospectors, Analyzers, and Defenders
Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
The Influence of Business Managers' IT Competence on Championing IT
Information Systems Research
Executives' perceptions of the business value of information technology: a process-oriented approach
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Impacts of information technology investment on organizational performance
Information technology and internal firm organization: an exploratory analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Competitive advantage from mandatory investments: An empirical study of Australian firms
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
A contingency model for estimating success of strategic information systems planning
Information and Management
A Service Science Perspective on Strategic Choice, IT, and Performance in U.S. Banking
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
Architecting Enterprises for IT-enabled Value Creation Part 1
International Journal of Green Computing
Banks and information technology: marketability vs. relationships
Electronic Commerce Research
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Previous research finds that firm performance is highest when firms maintain a singular strategic focus as opposed to a multi-focused strategy. Yet, from an IT perspective, there is still some debate as to whether IT business value or the contribution of IT to firm performance is also maximized when firms maintain a single-focused strategy. Using the notion of value disciplines to model strategic foci, we find in a matched survey of executives in 241 firms that IT business value is highest in firms with a multi-focused business strategy and lowest in those with a single focus. We also find a relationship between strategic foci and the primary locus of IT value within the value chain for all focus-types except those emphasizing operational excellence. If all firms are using IT to reduce operating expenses, operationally excellent firms may find it increasingly difficult to sustain a low-cost advantage over time through IT.