Proactive or reactive IT leaders? A test of two competing hypotheses of IT innovation and environment alignment

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 601-618

  Lu, Ying ^a   Ramamurthy, Keshavamurthy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

fit; industry dynamism; IT innovation; IT innovation environment alignment; longitudinal analysis; real options theory

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY;

ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DYNAMIC CAPABILITY PERSPECTIVE; IT INNOVATION; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; REAL OPTIONS THEORY; STRATEGIC ORIENTATION; SUSTAINED COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES;

COMPETITION;

EID: 77957227624     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.36     Document Type: Article

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