Summary of – Role of information technology in enabling managerial dynamic capabilities

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Abstract

In today's rapidly changing business landscape characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), organizations must continually adapt and renew their strategies to remain competitive. Dynamic capabilities (DCs) have emerged as a crucial framework for understanding how firms can achieve this strategic renewal.

Research Goals and Hypotheses

This conceptual paper explicates the role played by information technology (IT) in enabling managerial dynamic capabilities. By doing so, it seeks to address a critical theoretical gap regarding IT’s role in enabling dynamic capabilities (DCs).

Methodological Approach

This conceptual paper uses the literature on dynamic managerial capabilities, individual-level information system use, social capital, human capital, managerial cognition and technology-enabled learning to build propositions that link managerial IT use with the enablement of dynamic managerial capabilities.

Results and Discoveries

This paper introduces a new construct called individual IT leveraging capability (IILC) and provides theoretically grounded arguments linking IILC with managerial social capital, managerial cognition, and managerial human capital. It also explains the relationships between managerial social capital, managerial cognition, and managerial human capital and the dynamic managerial capabilities of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring.

Establishing the linkage between IT and dynamic managerial capabilities extends the literature on IT's business value. This work also adds to the literature on dynamic managerial capabilities by providing a theoretically grounded argument that IT can act as an antecedent of such capabilities.

Citation to the base paper:

Majhi, S.G., Mukherjee, A. and Anand, A. (2023), "Role of information technology in enabling managerial dynamic capabilities", VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems, Vol. 53 No. 1, pp. 187-204. https://doi.org/10.1108/VJIKMS-09-2020-0168

Publication Date

2023

Recommended Citation

Majhi, S.G., Mukherjee, A. and Anand, A. (2023), "Role of information technology in enabling managerial dynamic capabilities", VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems, Vol. 53 No. 1, pp. 187-204. https://doi.org/10.1108/VJIKMS-09-2020-0168

Publication Date

2023

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