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Chapter 20
Handbook of Research on Contemporary Theoretical Models in Information Systems
Encompass the strategic alternatives available to a firm are a function of its past activities and positions. A consideration of Path Dependencies help us understand exactly how the firm’s present market position is a function of its past performance and future possibilities. However, a firm’s past investments and present repertoire of productive routines may act to constrain its future behaviour and choice of action. The Technological Opportunities presented to a firm are often down to internal and external organizational and institutional structures, collaborations and knowledge links.
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Researching IT Capabilities and Resources: An Integrative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities and Institutional Commitments
Tom Butler (University College Cork, Ireland) and Ciaran Murphy (University College Cork, Ireland)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-659-4.ch020
Abstract
Recent studies have highlighted the utility of the resource-based view (RBV) in understanding the development and application of IT capabilities and resources in organisations. Nevertheless, IS research has inadvertently carried over several fundamental problems and weaknesses with the RBV from reference disciplines. This chapter proposes an integrative theory, model and research propositions that draws on dynamic capabilities theory from the resource-based view of the firm in institutional economics, and commitment theory in institutional sociology, to explain and understand the process by which IT capabilities and resources are developed and applied in organizations. In so doing, this study addresses the paucity of theory on the role of IT capabilities in building and leveraging firm-specific IT resources. The chapter also addresses the aforementioned problems and weaknesses to build a logically consistent and falsifiable theory, with relatively superior explanatory power, for application in both variance and process-based research, whether positivist or interpretivist in orientation.
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Chapter 14
Handbook of Research on Urban and Territorial Systems and the Intangible Dimension: Survey and Representation
The paths through which the observer looks at the city. They have different characteristics depending on their usability features, size, decoration, importance, etc.
Published in Chapter: Handbook of Research on Urban and Territorial Systems and the Intangible Dimension: Survey and Representation; From: Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage
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