Big Data Analytics Capabilities and Innovation: The Mediating Role of Dynamic Capabilities and Moderating Effect of the Environment

By Patrick Mikalef, Maria Boura, George Lekakos, John Krogstie. British Journal of Management, 2019

712 citations recorded by the source corpus.

With big data analytics growing rapidly in popularity, academics and practitioners have been considering the means through which they can incorporate the shifts these technologies bring into their competitive strategies. Drawing on the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities view, and on recent literature on big data analytics, this study examines the indirect relationship between a big data analytics capability (BDAC) and two types of innovation capabilities, incremental and radical. The study extends existing research by proposing that BDACs enable firms to generate insight that can help strengthen their dynamic capabilities, which in turn positively impact incremental and radical innovation capabilities. To test our proposed research model, we used survey data from 175 chief information officers and IT managers working in Greek firms. By means of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), results confirm our assumptions regarding the indirect effect that BDACs have on innovation capabilities. Specifically, we find that dynamic capabilities fully mediate the effect on both incremental and radical innovation capabilities. In addition, under conditions of high environmental heterogeneity, the impact of BDAC’s on dynamic capabilities, and in sequence, incremental innovation capability is enhanced, while under conditions of high environmental dynamism the effect of dynamic capabilities on incremental innovation capabilities is amplified.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/17fca92ffd527c78c5dc6c7953e96671743807fa

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Management Information Systems

In Management Science and Operations Research

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Exploring the impact of big data analytics capabilities on business model innovation: The mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation (2021, positive): “…investigated whether and the extent to which BDAC impact on the capacity of a firm to innovate its BM. Recent empirical literature has recognised how BDAC facilitate innovations in different business contexts (Fosso Wamba et al., 2017; Hooi et al., 2018; Mikalef et al., 2019; Pappas et al., 2018).”
Exploring the relationship between big data analytics capability and competitive performance: The mediating roles of dynamic and operational capabilities (2020, background): “While big data analytics has largely been regarded as a break-through technological development in academic and business communities [9], there is an ongoing debate about if, and under what conditions, such technologies can lead to competitive performance gains [10,11].”
Mastering digital transformation: The nexus between leadership, agility, and digital strategy (2022, background): “Organizations that focus on developing solid digital strategies can use them to drive digital transformation and improve top executives ’ decision-making processes (Mikalef et al., 2019).”