IT Resources, IT-Enabled Capabilities, and Business Performance

2015 ◽  
pp. 4129-4139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Ghobakhloo ◽  
Tang Sai Hong ◽  
Samrena Jabeen
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Organizational Capability ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Direct Contribution ◽  
Complementary Resources ◽  
It Resources ◽  
Resources And Capabilities

A number of IT scholars attempted to analyze the direct contribution of IT to firm performance, but, the findings were mixed and inconclusive. Viewed from IT-enabled organizational capability perspective, recent scholars increasingly consider the firm's IT resources as complementary resources augmenting the value of other organizational resources and capabilities, which will further lead to the performance improvement. This article provides a comprehensive review on the background of IT-enabled organizational capability and provides potential research directions for future IT scholars.

Effects of Information Technology on Business Performance and the Use of Accounting Measures

2015 ◽  
pp. 285-294
Author(s):  
Jorge A. Romero
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
It Investments ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Area Of Study

The understanding of the link between Information Technology (IT) investments and firm performance is still not completely understood in spite of numerous studies. However, these studies are not united in how they examine the effects of IT on business performance. They differ in their criteria, methodologies, and samples. Therefore, while there are positive effects associated with IT on firm performance, it is still difficult to reach overarching conclusions and highlight that there is still a need for further research. Specifically, this chapter contributes to this area of study by discussing the different types of benefits that firms can get from IT investments, examining the use of accounting variables to quantify the effect of IT, and providing future research directions.

Information Technology Resources, the Organizational Capability of Lean-Agile Manufacturing, and Business Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Ghobakhloo ◽  
Adel Azar
Keyword(s):  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Agile Manufacturing ◽  
Organizational Capability ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
It Resources ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Value Of It ◽  
Technology Resources

This article drew on the resource-based view of the firm and assessed how manufacturing firms—particularly in developing countries—can leverage their IT resources in support of lean manufacturing and agile manufacturing. The data collection was conducted via a survey of Iranian automobile manufacturers that supply international automobile makers. The result showed that IT resources are crucial to the development of lean manufacturing and agile manufacturing. The value of IT is truly transformed to performance improvement when IT resources are effectively leveraged in support of these manufacturing systems. Lean and agile manufacturing are two manufacturing strategies that can co-exist in one system and agile manufacturing may flourish under lean manufacturing circumstances. Complementarities exist among different practices of lean manufacturing as well as different dimensions of agile manufacturing. The authors' findings offer theoretical insights regarding the values of IT-enabled lean manufacturing and agile manufacturing at operation and strategic levels.

scholarly journals Beyond Intra-modality: A Survey of Heterogeneous Person Re-identification

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Wang ◽  
Zhixiang Wang ◽  
Yinqiang Zheng ◽  
Yang Wu ◽  
Wenjun Zeng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Low Resolution ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Future Research Directions

An efficient and effective person re-identification (ReID) system relieves the users from painful and boring video watching and accelerates the process of video analysis. Recently, with the explosive demands of practical applications, a lot of research efforts have been dedicated to heterogeneous person re-identification (Hetero-ReID). In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art Hetero-ReID methods that address the challenge of inter-modality discrepancies. According to the application scenario, we classify the methods into four categories --- low-resolution, infrared, sketch, and text. We begin with an introduction of ReID, and make a comparison between Homogeneous ReID (Homo-ReID) and Hetero-ReID tasks. Then, we describe and compare existing datasets for performing evaluations, and survey the models that have been widely employed in Hetero-ReID. We also summarize and compare the representative approaches from two perspectives, i.e., the application scenario and the learning pipeline. We conclude by a discussion of some future research directions. Follow-up updates are available at https://github.com/lightChaserX/Awesome-Hetero-reID

Corporate Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-43
Author(s):  
Iwona Bąk ◽  
Katarzyna Cheba
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Web

This research provides a comprehensive review of corporate sustainability literature in various application areas. The chapter also highlights the gaps in clearly explaining the scope for it extending and incorporating the term of corporate sustainability into other research areas. The main advantage of this study is that it provides an insight into the state of the art of corporate sustainability in various application areas and future development and research directions. In addition to the literature review in this area, the chapter also presents numerous examples of the understanding of corporate sustainability by various business organizations. The chapter analyses nearly 200 different publications in this field available in the Web of Science database. In addition to quantitative analyses, in-depth qualitative research was also carried out.

Contrasting IT Capability and Organizational Types

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Terry A. Byrd ◽  
Linda W. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
It Capability ◽  
Market Requirements ◽  
It Resources ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Inside Out

The Resource-Based View (RBV) has become one of the most popular ways to examine the impact of IT on firm performance. An increasing number of researchers are using the theoretical underpinning of the RBV to ground their research in investigating this relationship. This paper follows in this tradition by developing multidimensional measures for two dimensions of IT capability, inside-out IT capability and spanning IT capability. In this regard, the authors relate these dimensions to firm performance as profit ratios and cost ratios. Inside-out capability is the IT resources deployed from inside the firm in response to market requirements and opportunities. However, spanning IT capability involves both internal and external analysis and is needed to integrate the firm’s inside-out and outside-in IT competences. This study also makes an exploratory comparative assessment of the relative impact of inside-out IT capability and spanning IT capability, while analyzing the differences on the impact of IT capability in diverse types of organizations. Finally, the authors give evidence that different dimensions of IT capability may have different effects on performance measures.

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