IT capability and organizational performance: The roles of business process agility and environmental factors

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 326-342

  Chen, Yang ^a   Wang, Yi ^b   Nevo, Saggi ^c   Jin, Jiafei ^a   Wang, Luning ^d   Chow, Wing S ^e  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^e HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Business process agility; Environmental factors; IT capability; Organizational performance

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS EXECUTIVES; BUSINESS PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLEXITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL HOSTILITY; IT CAPABILITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84901301705     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2013.4     Document Type: Article

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