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Information Technology and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Resource-Based Analysis
| dc.contributor.author | Mata, Francisco J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fuerst, William L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-15T18:37:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-15T18:37:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mata, Francisco J., William L. Fuerst, and Jay B. Barney. "Information Technology and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Resource-Based Analysis." MIS Quarterly 19.4 (1995): 487. Web. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17773 | |
| dc.description | This is the published version. Copyright 1995 MIS Quarterly. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The concept of IT as a powerful competitive weapon has been strongly emphasized in the literature, yet the sustainability of the competitive advantage provided by IT applications is not well-explained. This work discusses the resource-based theory as a means of analyzing sustainability and develops a model founded on this resource-based view of the firm. This model is then applied to four attributes of IT -- capital requirements, proprietary technology, technical IT skills, and managerial IT skills -- which might be sources of sustained competitive advantage. From this resource-based analysis, we conclude that managerial IT skills is the only one of these attributes that can provide sustainability. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | MIS Quarterly | en_US |
| dc.subject | Competitive advantage | en_US |
| dc.subject | Resource-based theory | en_US |
| dc.subject | IT resources | en_US |
| dc.title | Information Technology and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Resource-Based Analysis | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | |
| kusw.kuauthor | Fuerst, William L. | |
| kusw.kudepartment | School of Business | en_US |
| kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
| kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
