This study investigates the development and sustainability of a firm’s IT capability reputation from an IT executive’s standpoint. Building on institutional theory, we argue that IT executives will try to achieve external legitimacy - i.e., project an image of superior IT capability to...

The objective of this study is to identify factors that help build an IT reputation, and to evaluate whether markets value a firm's ability to develop and sustain its IT reputation. Building on IT strategic leadership and IT business value literature, we argue that a similarity in the background...

Contrary to prior studies that have tried to examine the role of IT capabilities on firm performance in isolation from the role of senior IT executives, we propose that there is a positive relationship between the power of senior IT executives and the likelihood that the firm will develop...

Approaching IT innovation (ITI) from a strategic management standpoint, this paper sheds light on the issue of the capability of a firm to innovate with IT over time. In this study we argue that ITI is a cumulative and path-dependent capability that is not easily replicated. Companies that have...

Management's perception towards the competitive contribution potential of innovation with IT (ITI) can be likened to a roller coaster ride. Managers' confidence with IT rises some times only to fall later. Such an observation might have us believe that companies do not take a long-term and...

In this study we examine the persistence of a firm's ability to differentiate itself from its peers and stand out in a crowd of competitors through IT innovation. By using cross-sectional data set of large US firms from 1997-2004, our empirical evidence shows that prior IT innovation experience...