Enterprise agility and the enabling role of information technology
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...The firm can use modular, reusable code to rapidly produce IT-based products and services that will respond to changes, enable supply-chain and production capabilities to accommodate unexpected changes, and allow quick reconfiguration of the platform (Overby et al. 2006)....
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...However, researchers have also noted that IT may hinder and sometimes even impede organizational agility (Lucas and Olson 1994; Overby et al. 2006; Weill et al. 2002), partly due to the relatively fixed physical and technological artifacts of information systems (Allen and Boynton 1991; Galliers…...
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...However, researchers have also noted that IT may hinder and sometimes even impede organizational agility (Lucas and Olson 1994; Overby et al. 2006; Weill et al. 2002), partly due to the relatively fixed physical and technological artifacts of information systems (Allen and Boynton 1991; Galliers 2007)....
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...Real-time access to global information also supports extensive environmental scanning to gather, track, and disseminate information pertaining to changes in customer needs, competitors, and technology or regulatory developments (Kohli and Jaworski 1990; Overby et al. 2006)....
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...Agility also extends the concept of strategic flexibility that handles unstructured changes (Overby et al. 2006; Volberda and Rutges 1999)....
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...Due to the growing need for a timely and cost-effective manner of product and service delivery, supply chain agility is considered a critical type of operational capability required for superior firm performance [46,47]....
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...Therefore, supply chain agility is regarded as a critical source of superior firm performance [46,47]....
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...…to firm success in turbulent environments, including dynamic capabilities (Teece et al., 1997), strategic flexibility (Ansoff, 1980; Hitt et al., 1998), market orientation (Kohli & Jaworski, 1990; Narver & Slater, 1990), and absorptive capacity (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990; Zahra & George, 2003)....
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...The term ‘agile’ is commonly used to describe firms that are able to adapt to and perform well in rapidly changing environments (Dove, 2001; Weill et al., 2002; Sambamurthy et al., 2003; Gartner, 2004)....
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...This is consistent with the original conceptualization of absorptive capacity put forth by Cohen & Levinthal (1990), which suggests that firms must have a base of prior knowledge in an area in order to make sense of new developments in that area....
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...…to firm success in turbulent environments, including dynamic capabilities (Teece et al., 1997), market orientation (Kohli & Jaworski, 1990; Narver & Slater, 1990), absorptive capacity (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990; Zahra & George, 2003), and strategic flexibility (Ansoff, 1980; Grewal & Tansuhaj, 2001)....
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