Abhishek Kathuria

TL;DR: It is argued that the firm needs to effectively deploy cloud computing and leverage cloud operant resources as firm capabilities in a hierarchical fashion toward the development of cloud computing-based service models in order to reliably achieve the desired business outcomes.

TL;DR: It is argued that multi-level theorizing is necessary to explain the patterns of decision criteria that constitute the complex, yet boundedly-rational decision of platform participation, and imply that incentives at the ends of the pricing spectrum can increase supplier participation on digital platforms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine whether information technology (IT) helps firms to overcome the liabilities of global operations particularly when it comes to creation of exploratory innovations, and they draw on the knowledge-based view of the firm and hypothesize that IT-enabled social integration capacity influences exploratory innovation by enabling firms to leverage global cultural diversity and global geographical dispersion.

TL;DR: Through OLS analysis, the assertion that an organization’s IT capabilities individually and jointly influence organizational ambidexterity is validated and previously unexplained variance in IT payoffs in the emerging economy and small and medium enterprise contexts is accounted for.

TL;DR: This work draws on the firm-specific advantages framework to argue that foreign firms face a comparative disadvantage relative to local firms in leveraging the synergy between IT-enabled Flexibility in Customer Services and Marketing Capability, and in contrast, foreign firms enjoy a comparative advantage relative toLocal firms in Leveraging the synergies between IT and firm capabilities.