IT-enabled organizational agility and firms' sustainable competitive advantage

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lee, One Ki Daniel ^a   Sambamurthy, Vallabh ^b   Lim, Kai H ^c   Wei, Kwok Kee ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Agility; Complementary relationship; IT capability; Operational innovation; Sustainable competitive advantage

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SURVEYS;

AGILITY; COMPLEMENTARY RELATIONSHIP; EMERGING ECONOMIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS; IT CAPABILITIES; OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY; SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85069299610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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