Information Technology and Corporate Strategy: A Research Perspective

By Yannis Bakos, M. Treacy. MIS Q., 2015

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The use of information technology (IT) as a competitive weapon has become a popular cliche; but there is still a marked lack of understanding of the issues that determine the influence of information technology on a particular organization and the processes that will allow a smooth coordination of technology and corporate strategy. This article surveys the major efforts to arrive at a relevant framework and attempts to integrate them in a more comprehensive viewpoint. The focus then turns to the major research issues in understanding the impact of information technology on competitive strategy.

Subfields: Strategy and Management

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The role of information technology in the organization: a review, model, and assessment (2001, positive): “…strategy (e.g., Holland, Lockett & Blackman, 1992; Porter & Millar, 1985) because IT affects strategy and strategies have IT implications (e.g., Bakos & Treacy, 1986), yet theoretical or empirical treatment of the way IT moderates the effects of strategy on organizational outcomes such as…”
Absorptive Capacity and Information Systems Research: Review, Synthesis, and Directions for Future Research (2012, background): “…IT and absorptive capacity • Develop theoretical contexts with well-defined boundaries Nevertheless, IT can influence the computational and communication abilities of individuals (Bakos and Treacy 1986), thus expanding the limits of rationality and, in turn, the limits of absorptive capacity.”
Measuring the effects of business intelligence systems: The relationship between business process and organizational performance (2008, background): “Therefore, the performance impact of BI systems can be viewed on at least two levels (Lönnqvist and Pirttimäki, 2006; Cavalcanti, 2005; Bakos and Treacy, 1986): (1) improving the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational structure and business processes, i.e. the “internal strategy”, and (2)…”
Integrating TAM, TPB and TOE frameworks and expanding their characteristic constructs for e-commerce adoption by SMEs (2015, background): “A firm's strategy plays a primary role in EC adoption (Bakos & Treacy, 1986) and is intertwined with business strategy, be it to reduce costs and reengineer business processes, to increase product differentiation, to achieve growth by developing new products and entering into new markets, or to…”
Information Technology and Business-Level Strategy: Toward an Integrated Theoretical Perspective (2013, background): “…IT investment activity on firm or business-level performance should not be surprising since much of the extant research frames IT investment as a functional-level activity, often from an operational and/or project implementation perspective (Bakos and Treacy 1986; Henderson and Venkatraman 1993).”
Examining the Impact of Interorganizational Systems on Process Efficiency and Sourcing Leverage in Buyer-Supplier Dyads (2005, background): “Bakos and Treacy (1986) assert that “in most game theoretic situations, each side can improve its position, that is develop competitive advantage, by increasing the number of alternatives available.”
Organizational impact of system quality, information quality, and service quality (2010, neutral): “Based on Bakos and Treacy’s (1986) categorization of IT impacts on an organization, Sethi and King defined”
Beyond strategic information systems: towards an IS capability (2004, background): “…accounts of organizations that had achieved competitive advantage through the innovative application of technology and outlined the nature of that advantage (c.f. Bakos and Treacy, 1986; Cash and Konsynski, 1985; Ives and Learmount, 1984; King, 1978; McFarlan, 1984; Porter and Miller, 1985).”
The Resource-Based View and Information Systems Research: Review, Extension, and Suggestions for Future Research (2004, background): “The study of information technology as a driver of competitive advantage began to take hold in the 1980s (e.g., Bakos and Treacy 1986; McFarlan 1984).”