Business Innovation and Differentiation: Maturing the IT Capability

Carcary, Marian; Doherty, Eileen; Thornley, Clare

doi:10.1109/mitp.2015.18

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“…From the perspective of knowledge management, organizations may facilitate process-, product-, service-, technology-and management-related aspects of innovation by aligning technology with innovation [69]. From an IT capability view, organizations may utilize technological advances to innovate and differentiate, leading to IT-enabled business value [70]. Thus, the implementation of IT promotes the process, service and management innovation in organizations [71][72][73].…”

Section: Organizational Innovation and Is Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Green, Green, It’s Green: A Triad Model of Technology, Culture, and Innovation for Corporate Sustainability

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In the global trend of sustainable development and tightening legal environment, enterprises need to integrate their various resources to promote green innovation and organizational performances. This study conceptualizes green information system (IS) infrastructure as the hardware resource and green culture as the software resource. Based on the resource-alignment perspective, it examines their direct effects on green innovation effectiveness as well as indirect effects through the mediation of IS-culture fit, innovation-IS fit and innovation-culture fit. Survey observations were collected from over 300 organizations in China, the largest emerging economy under tremendous ecological and developmental pressures. The results suggest that green IS infrastructure and green culture has positive direct impacts on green innovation effectiveness. Meanwhile, innovation-IS fit, innovation-culture fit and IS-culture fit serve as positive, negative and non-significant mediators, respectively. In addition, a multi-group analysis reveals that organization size moderates the mediating rather than direct relationships, and small/medium and large enterprises face their own pros and cons in green innovation. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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Section: Organizational Innovation and Is Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Green, Green, It’s Green: A Triad Model of Technology, Culture, and Innovation for Corporate Sustainability

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“…It is usually implemented at a micro level to foster, form, and upgrade innovation capabilities [3,23,[53][54][55][56][57][58], such as innovation environments, innovation investment capabilities, cooperative innovation capabilities, intellectual property capabilities, and change-innovation capabilities [1]. Innovation capabilities enable construction enterprises to create, deploy, and maintain advantageous business performance in the long run.…”

Section: Construction Enterprise's Innovation Capability (Ceic)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Systematic Approach to Vulnerability Assessment of Innovation Capability of Construction Enterprises

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Abstract:The purpose of this research is to study the vulnerability of construction enterprises' innovation capabilities (CEIC) and their respective primary influencing factors. This paper proposed a vulnerability system framework of CEIC, designed two comprehensive assessments for analysis, namely the entropy and set pair analysis method (E-SPA) and the principle cluster analysis and SPA method (P-SPA), and compared grades to verify the vulnerability assessments. Further, the paper quantitatively assessed the major influencing factors in facilitating management, reducing vulnerability, and improving the ability of construction enterprises to respond to changes in the construction industry. The results showed that vulnerability could be effectively and systematically evaluated using E-SPA. However, managing or reducing entrepreneurial sensitivity and improving the ability to respond was critical to supporting sustainable CEIC. The case studies included in this paper suggested that in ensuring sustainable CEIC, companies should concentrate on highly educated human resources, R&D investments, intellectual property related innovations, and government support. This research provided a practical framework and established a sustainable strategy for companies to manage their vulnerability in developing innovation capability. In addition, this research presented an innovative and effective way to quantitatively analyze vulnerability which offered a foundation to signify a new paradigm shift in construction sustainable development.

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“…The relationship between IT and innovation has attracted increasing attention in practice and academia (Carcary et al, 2015;Nambisan, 2013). Prior literature on information systems (IS) examined the effect of IT on traditional closed innovation (Nambisan, 2003).…”

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Collaborative innovation capability in IT-enabled inter-firm collaboration

Wang

Jing

Chi

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Purpose With the increasingly collaborative nature of innovation and the expanding role of digital platforms on inter-firm collaboration, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of digital platforms on collaborative innovation capability (CIC) under conditions of two distinctive governance mechanisms. Furthermore, the competitive benefits of CIC at different levels of environmental uncertainty are examined to clarify the performance of collaborative innovation. Design/methodology/approach The research model is proposed based on dynamic capabilities theory, information technology (IT)-enabled organizational capability and governance mechanisms literature, and then validated by using partial least squares with data collected from 200 Chinese firms that engage in digital collaboration with their major channel distributors. Findings Empirical results show that the enabling effect of digital platforms capability on CIC is positively moderated by relational governance while negatively moderated by formal governance, and both governance mechanisms directly and positively influence CIC; the positive relationship between CIC and competitive performance is stronger for higher level of environmental uncertainty; and CIC is the key mediator converting digital platforms capability into competitive performance. Originality/value This study enriches the existing literatures in IT-innovation relationship by not only surfacing the interplay of digital platforms capability with two distinctive governance mechanisms in building CIC, but also clarifying the competitive benefits of CIC in an uncertain environment. Moreover, this study helps explain the controversial issue of the business value of IT capability by discovering the mediating role of CIC.

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Business Innovation and Differentiation: Maturing the IT Capability

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Green, Green, It’s Green: A Triad Model of Technology, Culture, and Innovation for Corporate Sustainability

Green, Green, It’s Green: A Triad Model of Technology, Culture, and Innovation for Corporate Sustainability

A New Systematic Approach to Vulnerability Assessment of Innovation Capability of Construction Enterprises

Collaborative innovation capability in IT-enabled inter-firm collaboration

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