講座題目:Leveraging IT resources for competitive performance: Insights from the perspective of contingent resource-action-performance model
時 間: 2016年11月9日(星期三)下午15:00—17:00
劉和福,男,博士,中國科學技術大學管理學院副教授。2016年國家自然科學基金優秀青年基金獲得者、中國信息經濟學會理事、SSCI期刊《Information Technology & People》Associate Editor、和SSCI期刊《Electronic Commerce Research and Applications》Area Editor。并擔任國家自然科學基金評審專家,香港政府優配研究基金UGC海外評審專家,以及十幾個國際SCI/SSCI期刊審稿人。近年來,主持國家自然科學基金優秀青年基金,國家自然科學基金面上基金,國家自然科學基金青年基金,安徽省自然科學基金面上基金等基礎研究項目10餘項。在《Journal of Operations Management》、《Decision Support Systems》、《Information and Management》、《International Journal of Production Research》等國際知名期刊發表 20 多篇SCI/SSCI論文,國内外引用已達600餘次。
While information technology (IT) resources have been increasingly embedded in a firm’s supply chain processes, the underlying mechanisms of how IT resources improve the firm’s competitive performance remain unclear. Drawing upon the resource-action-performance model and contingency theory, this study examines how IT resources (i.e., internally-focused IT resources, externally-focused IT resources, and IT business spanning resources) influence competitive performance through supply chain integration (SCI) (i.e., internal and external integration), as well as how the mediating effects are moderated by environmental turbulence. Using data collected from 215 firms in China, we find that different types of IT resources have differential impacts on SCI. In addition, our results indicate that the impacts of internally-focused IT resources and IT business spanning resources on competitive performance are mediated by both internal and external integration, while the impact of externally-focused IT resources on competitive performance is only mediated by external integration. Furthermore, our findings reveal that environmental turbulence positively moderates the impact of IT resources on competitive performance via internal integration yet negatively moderates the impact of IT resources on competitive performance via external integration. Theoretical contributions and managerial implications of this research are also discussed.