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Paper Number
1510
Paper Type
Short
Description
While IT capabilities are an important concept in IS research, past studies often focus on the internal impacts of firms’ IT capabilities. Less is known about how firms’ IT capabilities drive their alliance formation with IT partners. This question is particularly pertinent to firms in non-IT industries as these firms often lack these important capabilities to succeed in the digital era. In this study, we combine the alliance literature and the organization-stakeholder fit theory to hypothesize a U-shaped relationship between the IT capabilities of non-IT firms and their alliance formation with IT partners. We further theorize a complex moderating role of environmental dynamism in this relationship. A panel data set of 8808 non-IT firms in 2012-2020 provides partial support to our theory. This study potentially contributes to the business value of IT literature as well as the alliance literature.
Recommended Citation
Tu, Karen Van Gia and Nguyen, Dinh Khoi, "Choose Your Friends Wisely: Complementarity and Supplementarity of IT Capabilities in IT Alliance Formation" (2022). ICIS 2022 Proceedings. 4.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/governance_is/governance_is/4
Choose Your Friends Wisely: Complementarity and Supplementarity of IT Capabilities in IT Alliance Formation
While IT capabilities are an important concept in IS research, past studies often focus on the internal impacts of firms’ IT capabilities. Less is known about how firms’ IT capabilities drive their alliance formation with IT partners. This question is particularly pertinent to firms in non-IT industries as these firms often lack these important capabilities to succeed in the digital era. In this study, we combine the alliance literature and the organization-stakeholder fit theory to hypothesize a U-shaped relationship between the IT capabilities of non-IT firms and their alliance formation with IT partners. We further theorize a complex moderating role of environmental dynamism in this relationship. A panel data set of 8808 non-IT firms in 2012-2020 provides partial support to our theory. This study potentially contributes to the business value of IT literature as well as the alliance literature.
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