پديد آورندگان :
Masa’deh, Ra’ed (Moh’d Taisir) Faculty of Business - Management Information Systems Department, jordan
چكيده عربي :
Most of the Information Systems (IS) research considered Information Technology (IT) as infrastructureflexibility construct in terms of connectivity, compatibility, modularity, and IT personnel competency. Chanopaset al. (2006) expanded the construct by adding other five elements; namely scalability, continuity, rapidity,facility, and modernity. Indeed, since no research validates Chanopas et al.’s (2006) study, which was the firstdescribing a new framework represents IT infrastructure flexibility. The current research aims at examining theirinvestigation on the nine variables that reflect the construct. In addition, as research has neglected the associationbetween IT infrastructure flexibility and firm performance besides some researchers calls (e.g. Chanopas et al.,2006; Tanriverdi, 2006; Fink and Neumann, 2009; Zhang et al., 2009; Bhatt et al., 2010) who emphasised thatvery little theoretical and practical research occurs on studying the relationships among IT infrastructureflexibility, IT-based competitive advantage, and firm performance. This paper is the first that empirically testedthe associations among them. Several statistical techniques were conducted on data collected from a sample of98 firms. Empirical results did not find a direct relationship between IT infrastructure flexibility and firmperformance. However, causal links were founded between IT infrastructure flexibility and IT-based competitiveadvantage; and IT-based competitive advantage and firm performance. The conclusions of the current study areprovided, and areas for further research are also addressed
كليدواژه :
IT Infrastructure Flexibility , IT , based Competitive Advantage , Firm Performance
