[Withdrawn] How Do E-commerce Capabilities Influence Agricultural Firm Performance Gains? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Based on the resource-based view of the firm and from the perspective of organizational agility, thisstudybuilds a model of the factors affecting agricultural firm performance gains in the context of e-commerce and discusses the effects of e-commerce capabilities on firm performance gains. The empirical results show that market capitalizing agility and operational adjustment agility play important mediating roles in conveying positive influences of e-commerce capabilities’ dimensions on financialand non-financial performance gains. Specifically, managerial, analytical, and technical capabilities have different effects on market capitalizing agility and operational adjustment agility, with talent capability performing the most important role. Both market capitalizing agility and operational adjustment agility have positive impacts on financial and non-financial performance gains, respectively

Effective IT governance mechanisms in higher education institutions: An empirical study

Particular attention to IT Governance is required when the pervasive use of technology has created critical dependencies on IT for organizational performance and prosperity. This study attempts to assess the importance of specific mechanisms for the effectiveness of IT governance in the context of higher educational institutions. Using a qualitative approach with in-depth interviews and document analysis to collect data, a study was carried out across several countries. A mechanism in each type (structure, process, and relational) emerge as quite important: IT Strategy Committee (structure), IT Strategic Planning (process) and IT Leadership (relational).CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil Process n.º10415/13-0 and by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/201

Tech-Savvy on Board: Investigating the Impact of Board of Directors’ IT Professional Experiences on Firms’ IT Investment and Performance

Our study investigates whether having directors with IT professional experiences on board impacts a firm’s IT investment growth and financial performance. We gather data from BoardEx, Compustat, and Harte-Hanks databases for S&P 1500 firms between 2011 and 2017. We include a rich set of controls and fixed effects in the analysis. We also employ a novel strategy to adjust for the remaining selection on unobservables. Our analysis shows that firms with tech-savvy directors have higher investment growth in different categories of IT including software, hardware, communication, and services. We also find these firms experience better performance measured by Tobin’s Q. The findings highlight the importance of board of directors in driving IT investment growth and firm performance

Board IT Competence and Firm Performance

In this study, we theorize a new construct ‘board IT competence’, and show that it is systematically related to firm performance. Using a sample of 32,856 firm-years observations over the period of the year 2000 to 2018, our study shows that board IT competence is positively associated with firm performance. Moreover, the findings suggest that firm performance is not only higher, but also more consistent across time. While many firms find it difficult to identify the right sources in developing IT competence at the board level, our study suggests that a board composition that promotes the representation of directors with relevant IT competencies can offer valuable insights to mobilize and reconfigure IT asset to create firm value