An empirical study of the relationship between complementary resources and it capability: A resource-based perspective

作者：Li Wenli^*; Li Shijie; Ke Yulong

来源：ICIC Express Letters, 2010, 4(5): 1425-1430.

• Business resources
• Domestic firms
• Empirical studies
• Human resources
• Information technologies (it)
• IT Capabilities
• IT capability
• IT infrastructures
• IT investments
• Key factors
• Performance research
• Rapid development
• Research questions
• Resource-based view
• Structural equation modelling

As the rapid development of information technology (IT) and widely application in the firm, how to improve the performance by IT investment has been a hot research question. Based on the perspective of resource-based view and resources-capability-performance research framework, the IT capability model was proposed to study the influence of IT investment, complementary human resources and complementary business resources to IT infrastructure capability, IT human resource capability and IT-enabled intangible capability. Structural equation modelling is used to analyze the data of 152 domestic firms, results show that the complementary business resources make a positive contribution to IT infrastructure capability, while complementary human resources have a strong positive relationship with IT human resource capability, they are both key factors to the formation of IT capability.

• 出版日期2010