SCUIDT- Strategic and Competitive Uses of Information and Digital Technologies

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1314

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This paper seeks to extend earlier treatments of the relationship between information technology (IT) resources and competitive actions to explicitly account for the roles of human agency and temporality, which have not been adequately addressed in prior research. It draws on the literatures on competitive dynamics and time-situated agency to understand and explain the role of managers in formulating and executing IT-enabled competitive actions. We discuss insights from a review of the extant literature and argue that further inquiry is warranted to understand how the agency of managers shapes the development and execution of two types of IT-enabled competitive actions, i.e., proactive actions and reactive actions. In this research-in-progress paper, we address this issue and present a set of propositions to serve as the basis for a new theory of agency and IT-enabled competitive actions.

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Aug 10th, 12:00 AM

Theorizing Agency and Temporality in IT-Enabled Competitive Actions

This paper seeks to extend earlier treatments of the relationship between information technology (IT) resources and competitive actions to explicitly account for the roles of human agency and temporality, which have not been adequately addressed in prior research. It draws on the literatures on competitive dynamics and time-situated agency to understand and explain the role of managers in formulating and executing IT-enabled competitive actions. We discuss insights from a review of the extant literature and argue that further inquiry is warranted to understand how the agency of managers shapes the development and execution of two types of IT-enabled competitive actions, i.e., proactive actions and reactive actions. In this research-in-progress paper, we address this issue and present a set of propositions to serve as the basis for a new theory of agency and IT-enabled competitive actions.

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