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Measuring IT Core Capabilities for Electronic Commerce: Results from a Confirmatory Factor Analysis
This paper reports on the theoretical development and empirical validation of a measurement instrument for three IT core capabilities in an electronic commerce context. The instrument is based on the work of Feeny and Willcocks and includes the capabilities âIS/IT governance,â âbusiness system thinking,â and ârelationship building.â It was validated using a sample consisting of 179 respondents, all IT managers or CIOs. Results demonstrate that the constructs are reliable (alpha coefficients \u3e 0.8) and valid. A confirmatory factor analysis on the data set yields a moderately acceptable model fit. The model also demonstrates highly significant factor loadings (p \u3c 0.001). We show that a respecification of a competing model in which âIS/IT governanceâ is split into âbusiness IT strategic thinkingâ and âIT managementâ provides better measures of fit. The paper concludes that core capabilities of IT departments are useful constructs to incorporate in future research. They are able to successfully predict behaviors that have relatively little overlap. Recommended further research includes the relationship between capabilities and governance structures, as well as further investigation into how IT core capabilities are formed and strengthened in organizations
E-business Model Innovation and Capability Building
e-commerce, business models, capacity building
Contribución del comercio electrónico al desempeño de las PyMEs industriales: un modelo estructural
El rol que juegan las TecnologĂas de la InformaciĂłn y comunicaciĂłn (TIC) para lograr un mejor desempeño organizacional aĂșn requiere de un anĂĄlisis mĂĄs profundo entre las pequeñas y medianas empresas (PyMEs) de los paĂses en desarrollo. Este estudio pretende ampliar la literatura empĂrica sobre la relaciĂłn entre TIC, comercio electrĂłnico y desempeño de las PyMEs en paĂses en desarrollo. Para alcanzar este objetivo, utilizamos una muestra de 87 empresas manufactureras de la ciudad de Bahia Blanca, Argentina correspondiente al año 2015. Mediante la estimaciĂłn de un Modelo de ecuaciĂłn estructura, se obtiene que la adopciĂłn del comercio electrĂłnico posee una influencia positiva y significativa en las ventas de las PyMEs la cual es potenciada por el nivel de uso de las TIC. Otros factores organizacionales tales como el tamaño de la empresa y los programas pĂșblicos explican el desempeño, pero no son predictores significativos de la adopciĂłn del comercio electrĂłnico.The role Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play in achieving a better organizational performance still needs further analysis among small and medium sized enterprises (SME) from developing countries. This study aims to extend the empirical literature on the relationship between ICT, electronic commerce and SME performance in developing countries. To achieve this goal, we employ a sample of 87 manufacturing firms from the city of BahĂa Blanca, Argentina in the year 2015. By estimating a structural equation model, we obtain that electronic commerce adoption has a positive and significant influence on SME sales which is reinforced by the level of ICT use. Other organizational factors such as firm size and public programs explain performance, but are not significant predictors of the electronic commerce adoption.Fil: Alderete, Maria Veronica. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de EconomĂa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - BahĂa Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones EconĂłmicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de EconomĂa. Instituto de Investigaciones EconĂłmicas y Sociales del Sur; Argentin
Technology-driven online marketing performance measurement: lessons from affiliate marketing
Although the measurement of offline and online marketing is extensively researched, the literature on online performance measurement still has a number of limitations such as slow theory advancement and predominance of technology- and practitioner-driven measurement approaches. By focusing on the widely employed but under-researched affiliate marketing channel, this study addresses these limitations and evaluates the effectiveness of practitioner-led online performance assessment. The paper offers a comprehensive review of extant performance measurement research across traditional, online and affiliate marketing and, employing grounded theory, presents a qualitative in-depth analysis of 72 online forum discussions and 37 semi-structured interviews with the major affiliate marketing stakeholders. As a result, the research identifies a growing need for change in the technology-pushed measurement approaches in affiliate marketing, and proposes actionable improvement recommendations for affiliate and online marketing managers
Measuring Internet performance within the organization.
Model; Evaluation; Performance; Secteur du tourisme; SystĂšmes d'information; Information technology; Internet;
Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns
Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse
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