Managing IT for Innovation: Dynamic Capabilities and Competitive Advantage

The book explores the use of collaboration systems in global corporations to enhance dynamic capabilities through micro strategy theory and organization theory. It demonstrates how dynamic IT-enabled knowledge communities create IT-enabled dynamic capabilities through the integration of four research streams. The book is intended for academics, researchers, and business leaders, with practical implications for enhancing competitiveness and sustainable growth in a knowledge-based society.

Format: Hardback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 27 July 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

With the rapid advancements in IT, particularly in AI and IoT, collaboration systems like business chat, cloud services, conferencing systems, and unified communications have gained widespread adoption as essential IT applications in global corporations' strategic endeavors. Through in-depth longitudinal studies of these corporations, the book presents a novel theoretical framework and implications for IT-enabled dynamic capabilities through collaboration systems, drawing from micro strategy theory and organization theory.

The book's content is rooted in comprehensive longitudinal analyses employing various qualitative research methods, including ethnography, participant observation, action research, and in-depth case studies of global corporations across Europe, the United States, and Asia. These corporations actively utilize collaboration systems to enhance their operations. It introduces a novel concept of micro dynamism, wherein dynamic IT-enabled knowledge communities, such as IT-enabled communities of practice and IT-enabled strategic communities, emerge through the integration of four research streams: an information systems view, a micro strategy view, a micro organization view, and a knowledge-based view.

The book showcases that collaboration systems play a pivotal role in creating, sustaining, and developing IT-enabled knowledge communities within companies. Moreover, it demonstrates that these systems are strategic IT applications for enhancing the competitiveness of companies in the continuous pursuit of new innovation and the realization of sustainable growth in a knowledge-based society of the 21st century.

This book is primarily designed for academics, researchers, and graduate students, offering valuable insights and theoretical foundations for their studies. However, it also provides practical implications for business leaders and managers, enabling them to harness the power of collaboration systems to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and achieve competitive advantage in today's rapidly evolving business landscape.

The book's utilization is anticipated not only in business and management schools, graduate schools, and university education environments but also in various industries and sectors where collaboration and knowledge management are crucial for success.

Weight: 582g
Dimension: 160 x 241 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367462987