讲座题目:Leveraging IT resources for competitive performance: Insights from the perspective of contingent resource-action-performance model
时 间: 2016年11月9日(星期三)下午15:00—17:00
刘和福,男,博士,中国科学技术大学管理学院副教授。2016年国家自然科学基金优秀青年基金获得者、中国信息经济学会理事、SSCI期刊《Information Technology & People》Associate Editor、和SSCI期刊《Electronic Commerce Research and Applications》Area Editor。并担任国家自然科学基金评审专家,香港政府优配研究基金UGC海外评审专家,以及十几个国际SCI/SSCI期刊审稿人。近年来,主持国家自然科学基金优秀青年基金,国家自然科学基金面上基金,国家自然科学基金青年基金,安徽省自然科学基金面上基金等基础研究项目10余项。在《Journal of Operations Management》、《Decision Support Systems》、《Information and Management》、《International Journal of Production Research》等国际知名期刊发表 20 多篇SCI/SSCI论文,国内外引用已达600余次。
While information technology (IT) resources have been increasingly embedded in a firm’s supply chain processes, the underlying mechanisms of how IT resources improve the firm’s competitive performance remain unclear. Drawing upon the resource-action-performance model and contingency theory, this study examines how IT resources (i.e., internally-focused IT resources, externally-focused IT resources, and IT business spanning resources) influence competitive performance through supply chain integration (SCI) (i.e., internal and external integration), as well as how the mediating effects are moderated by environmental turbulence. Using data collected from 215 firms in China, we find that different types of IT resources have differential impacts on SCI. In addition, our results indicate that the impacts of internally-focused IT resources and IT business spanning resources on competitive performance are mediated by both internal and external integration, while the impact of externally-focused IT resources on competitive performance is only mediated by external integration. Furthermore, our findings reveal that environmental turbulence positively moderates the impact of IT resources on competitive performance via internal integration yet negatively moderates the impact of IT resources on competitive performance via external integration. Theoretical contributions and managerial implications of this research are also discussed.