An empirical study of relationship between IT investment and firm performance: A resource-based perspective

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 984-999

  Huang, Shi Ming ^a   Ou, Chin Shyh ^a   Chen, Chyi Miaw ^a   Lin, Binshan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm performance; IT capability; IT investment; Resource based theory

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INVESTMENTS;

FIRM PERFORMANCE; IT CAPABILITY; IT INVESTMENT; RESOURCE-BASED THEORY;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 33744978319     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Bharadwaj A.S. A resource-based perspective on information technology capability and firm performance: An empirical investigation. MIS Quarterly 24 1 (2000) 169-196
2. Barney J.B. Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management 17 (1991) 99-120
3. Conner K.R. A historical comparison of resource-based theory and five schools of thought within industrial organization economics: Do we have a new theory of the firm?. Journal of Management 17 1 (1991) 121-154
4. Grant R.M. The resource-based theory of competitive advantage: Implications for strategy formulation. California Management Review Spring (1991) 114-135
5. Russo M.V., and Fouts P.A. A resource-based perspective on corporate environmental performance and profitability. Academy of Management Journal 40 3 (1997) 534-559
6. Schendel D. Introduction to competitive organizational behavior: Toward an organizationally based theory of competitive advantage. Strategic Management Journal 15 (1994) 1-4
7. Ross J.W., Beath C.M., and Goodhue D.L. Develop long-term competitiveness through IT assets. Sloan Management Review 38 1 (1996) 31-45
8. Chatfield A.T., and Bjorn-Andersen N. The impact of IOS-enabled business process change on business outcomes: Transformation of the value chain of Japan airlines. Journal of Management Information Systems 14 1 (1997) 13-40
9. Weill P., and Broadbent M. Leveraging the new infrastructure: How market leaders capitalize on information technology (1998), Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge, MA
10. Keen P.G.W. Shaping the future: business design through information technology (1991), Harvard School Press, Boston, MA
11. Mckenney J.L. Waves of change: Business evolution through information technology (1995), Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge, MA
12. Venkatraman N. IT induced business reconfiguration. In: Scott Morton M.S. (Ed). The Corporation of the 1990s (1991), Oxford University Press, New York 122-158
13. Reed R., and DeFillippi R.J. Casual ambiguity, barriers to imitation and sustainable competitive advantage. Academy of Management Review 15 1 (1990) 88-102
14. Grant R.M. Contemporary Strategy Analysis (1995), Blackwell Publishers Inc., Oxford, UK
15. Copeland D.G., and McKenney J.L. Airline reservation systems: Lessons from history. MIS Quarterly 12 3 (1988) 353-370
16. Teece D.J. Capturing value from knowledge assets: The new economy, markets for know how, and intangible assets. California Management Review 40 3 (1998) 55-79
17. Vergin R.C., and Qoronfleh M.W. Corporate reputation and the stock market. Business Horizons 41 1 (1998) 19-26
18. Brynjolfsson E., and Hitt L. Paradox lost? Firm-level evidence on the returns to information systems spending. Management Science 42 4 (1996) 541-558
19. Dedrick J., et al. Information technology and economic performance: A critical review of the empirical evidence. ACM Computing Surveys 35 1 (2003) 1-28
20. Laudon K.C., and Laudon J.P. Essentials of Management Information Systems. Fifth ed. (2003), Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ
21. Matusik S.F., and Hill C.W. The utilization of contingent work, knowledge creation, and competitive advantage. The Academy of Management Review 23 4 (1998) 680-697
22. Brown J.S., and Duguid P. Organizing knowledge. California Management Review 40 3 (1998) 90-111
23. Bharadwaj S., Varadarajan P.R., and Fahy J. Sustainable competitive advantage in service industries: A conceptual model and research propositions. Journal of Marketing 57 10 (1993) 83-99
24. Hitt L., and Brynjolfsson E. Productivity, business profitability, and customer surplus: Three different measures of information technology value. MIS Quarterly 20 2 (1996) 121-142
25. Byrd T.A., and Turner D.E. An exploratory analysis of the value of the skills of IT personnel: Their relationship to IS infrastructure and competitive advantage. Decision Sciences 32 1 (2001) 21-54
26. Weill P., and Olson M.H. Managing investment in information technology: Mini case examples and implications. MIS Quarterly 13 1 (1989) 3-17
27. Byrd T.A., and Turner D.E. Measuring the flexibility of information technology infrastructure: Exploratory analysis of a construct. Journal of Management Information Systems 17 1 (2000) 167-208
28. Lawshe C.H. A quantitative approach to content validity. Personnel Psychology 28 (1975) 563-575
29. Jiang Y.J. Taiwan spaces out the margin with the intelligence capital. Global Views Monthly January (2003) 100-189
30. Y.T. Yeh, The current trend of Taiwan industry information technique application, in: Proceedings of the Conference on Taiwan Industry Intelligence Capital Theories and Practice, October 2002.
31. Hair J.F., Anderson R.E., Tatham R.L., and Black W.C. Multivariate Data Analysis. Fifth ed. (1998), Prentice-Hall
32. M. Zhang, J. McCullough, Effect of learning and information technology capability on business performance, in: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Global Business and Economic Development, 2003, pp. 1491-1499.
33. Nunnaly J. Psychometric Theory (1978), McGraw-Hill, New York
34. Sabherwal R., and Kirs P. The alignment between organizational critical success factors and information technology capability in academic institutions. Decision Science 25 2 (1994) 301-330
35. Russel D. In search of underlying dimensions: The use and abuse of factor analysis in personality and social psychology bulletin. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 28 12 (1999) 1629-1646
36. Fabrigar L., et al. Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research. Psychological Methods 4 1 (1999) 272-299