TY - GEN
T1 - Information technology competency and organizational agility
T2 - 25th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2017
AU - Mao, Hongyi
AU - Liu, Shan
AU - Zhang, Jinlong
AU - Zhang, Yajun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Organizational agility has become increasingly essential for contemporary organizations to survive and compete in this information age. Although scholars have discussed the possible effects of information technology (IT) competency on organizational agility, existing knowledge on IT–agility relationship is limited. An integration analysis of internal capability and external environment is lacking. This study investigates the mediating role of absorptive capacity and the moderating role of information intensity in IT‒agility relationship to fill the research gap. Empirical evidence from the data of 165 organizations in China shows that the effects of absorptive capacity are multifaceted and nuanced. In particular, absorptive capability partially mediates the effects of IT knowledge and IT operations on market capitalizing agility and fully mediates their effects on operational adjustment agility. No mediations are found in IT objects. The results also show that information intensity strengthens the effects of IT operations and objects on absorptive capacity. We then discuss theoretical and practical implications.
AB - Organizational agility has become increasingly essential for contemporary organizations to survive and compete in this information age. Although scholars have discussed the possible effects of information technology (IT) competency on organizational agility, existing knowledge on IT–agility relationship is limited. An integration analysis of internal capability and external environment is lacking. This study investigates the mediating role of absorptive capacity and the moderating role of information intensity in IT‒agility relationship to fill the research gap. Empirical evidence from the data of 165 organizations in China shows that the effects of absorptive capacity are multifaceted and nuanced. In particular, absorptive capability partially mediates the effects of IT knowledge and IT operations on market capitalizing agility and fully mediates their effects on operational adjustment agility. No mediations are found in IT objects. The results also show that information intensity strengthens the effects of IT operations and objects on absorptive capacity. We then discuss theoretical and practical implications.
KW - Absorptive capacity
KW - Information intensity
KW - Information technology competency
KW - Market capitalizing agility
KW - Operational adjustment agility
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85058041296
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85058041296
T3 - Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2017
SP - 1584
EP - 1599
BT - Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2017
PB - Association for Information Systems
Y2 - 5 June 2017 through 10 June 2017
ER -