An exploratory examination of the relationship between flexible IT infrastructure and competitive advantage

By Terry Anthony Byrd, Douglas Edward Turner. Information Manager (The), 2001

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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The impact of IT capabilities on firm performance: The mediating roles of absorptive capacity and supply chain agility (2013, unknown): “In particular, this study explores the roles of two IT capabilities that affect firm performance, namely, (1) flexible IT infrastructure, which is a carefully planned and developed technological foundation on which present and future IT applications are built [9,54,60], and (2) IT assimilation, or t”
Inside the adaptive enterprise: an information technology capabilities perspective on business process agility (2008, methodology): “Elsewhere, in a series of analyses, Byrd and Turner [12] [13] [14] develop the notion of a flexible IT infrastructure based on flexible or integrated hardware and networking resources, reusable software, and IT expertise that can be leveraged to change IT infrastructure to suit the evolving needs of”
Using Enterprise Architecture Standards in Managing Information Technology (2006, methodology): “We used four items based on the measures of data management in Byrd and Turner [16] and Duncan [25] to identify the key measures with an enterprise focus that were most relevant to our study: (1) whether the respondent organization had formally and sufficiently identified data to be shared across li”
Electronic commerce adoption: an empirical study of small and medium US businesses (2004, methodology): “MIS research has benefited from the use of this multivariate technique (see, for example [9,33]).”
An empirical examination of the acceptance behaviour of hotel front office systems: An extended technology acceptance model (2008, background): “Also, many studies have found that there is a positive relationship between IT investment and organisation productivity and performance (Byrd & Turner, 2001; Powell & Dent-Micallef, 1997; Rai, Patnayakuni, & Patnayakuni, 1997).”
IS Application Capabilities and Relational Value in Interfirm Partnerships (2007, background): “Studies have started to examine the relational value of well-designed IS applications, but there tends to be a selective focus on speciﬁc capabilities, such as IT integration (Rai et al. 2006) or IT ﬂexibility (Byrd and Turner 2001, Ray et al. 2005).”