How do IT capabilities create strategic value? Toward greater integration of insights from reductionistic and holistic approaches
How do IT capabilities create strategic value? Toward greater integration of insights from reductionistic and holistic approaches
Lior Fink
2011 · DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.53
European Journal of Information Systems · 131 Citations
TLDR
This study draws on the resource-based view and configurational theory to develop two reductionistic and two holistic models of IT strategic value, which are tested with data collected from IT managers and illustrates the insights that can be gained by drawing on the relative strengths of reductionists and holistic explanations.