The "Third Hand": IT-Enabled Competitive Advantage in Turbulence Through Improvisational Capabilities

By Paul A. Pavlou, Omar El Sawy. Information systems research, 2010

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Information Technology Competencies, Organizational Agility, and Firm Performance: Enabling and Facilitating Roles (2013, background): “These IT competencies may be rigid rather than amenable to frequent reorganization and realignment with the pressing demands of the moment (Pavlou and El Sawy 2010).”
Information Technology and Firm Profitability: Mechanisms and Empirical Evidence (2012, background): “…1995; Bhatt and Grover 2005; Cheng and Nault 2007; DeLone and McLean 1992; El Sawy and Pavlou 2008; Kohli and Melville 2009; Lucas 1993; Mithas, Ramasubbu and Sambamurthy 2011b; Pavlou and El Sawy 2006; Pavlou and El Sawy 2010; Sambamurthy et al. 2003; Tallon, Kraemer and Gurbaxani 2000).”
A Systematic Review of the Literature on Digital Transformation: Insights and Implications for Strategy and Organizational Change (2020, background): “Generally, turbulence can be understood as ‘the conditions of unpredictability in the environment because of rapid changes in customer needs, emerging technologies, and competitive actions’ (Pavlou and El Sawy, 2010, p. 444).”
Resource Structuring or Capability Building? An Empirical Study of the Business Value of Information Technology (2012, background): “Pavlou and El Sawy [72] indicate that the capability of effectively using IT functionalities in new product development can help to build a competitive advantage.”
Digital innovation strategy: A framework for diagnosing and improving digital product and service innovation (2017, background): “Although it often emerges as a consequence of formal plans not playing out, managers can intentionally employ impro-visation as a deliberate strategy (Pavlou & El Sawy, 2010).”
On the Use of Neuropyhsiological Tools in IS Research: Developing a Research Agenda for NeuroIS (2012, background): “This valid point notwithstanding, detecting deception may be difficult to study with behavioral studies that ask subjects to detect fraud (Pavlou and Gefen, 2005). This is where neurophysiological tools could be valuable by exposing subjects to fraudulent websites and identifying differences in phys”