Although information technologies have been expected to directly enhance firm performance in specific value chain activities (e.g., supplier performance or customer service performance), their advanced capabilities offer the promise of organizational integration and spill-over benefits....

This research draws on transaction-cost and resource-based theory to examine how information technology (IT) capital moderates the relationship between different types of assets and firm scope — both vertical integration and diversification. The analysis suggests that IT capital enables firms...

Firms invest in a variety of information technologies and seek to align their IT asset portfolios with two key performance outcomes: efficiency and innovation. Existing research makes the universalistic assumption that both outcomes will always be realized through firms’ IT asset portfolios....

This study examines how the risk-taking motives of top managers drives risk-taking in IT implementations. We use the risk incentives provided in managerial compensation to capture top managers' risk-taking motives, and develop measures of aggressive IT implementation to capture strategic...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a common mechanism deployed by firms to achieve growth. M&A-seeking firms that invest in information technology (IT) infrastructure, studies have shown, can significantly improve growth outcomes. Interestingly, however, while ownership of IT infrastructure can...

Current knowledge management (KM) technologies and strategies advocate two different approaches: knowledge codification and knowledge sharing networks. However, the extant literature has paid limited attention to the interaction between them. This research draws upon the literature on formal...

This study examines the impact of technological acquisitions on contributions to firm-sponsored community-based open-source software (OSS). We distinguish between internal contributors affiliated with target firms and external contributors from the community, and examine how they respond to...