TY - JOUR
T1 - IT infrastructure and competitive aggressiveness in explaining and predicting performance
AU - Ajamieh, Aseel
AU - Benitez, Jose
AU - Braojos, Jessica
AU - Gelhard, Carsten
N1 - Funding Information:
This manuscript benefits from the comments of Javier Llorens and Jörg Henseler. The European Regional Development Fund (European Union) and the Spanish Government (Research Projects ECO2010-15885 and ECO2013-47027-P ), the Regional Government of Andalusia (Research Project P11-SEJ-7294 ), and the COVIRAN-Prodware Chair of Digital Human Resource Strategy at the School of Human Resource Management of the University of Granada sponsor this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - While prior Information Systems and Operations Management literature emphasizes the role of both the firm's IT infrastructure and the general degree of competition as antecedents of firm performance, the organizational capabilities that mediate these important relationships remain undetermined. Responding to the increasing importance of incorporating environmental sustainability practices across the internal and external supply chain, this study proposes green supply chain management as an important mediator of the IT infrastructure/competitive aggressiveness–firm performance relationship. Enabled by internal IT capabilities and external competitive pressure, green supply chain management capabilities support firms in achieving operational excellence, thereby contributing to the firm's overall performance. Using primary and secondary data on 203 large firms in Spain, this study applies the partial least squares approach to structural equation modeling. Its empirical analysis reveals that green supply chain management fully mediates the relationships between IT infrastructure capability and firm performance, and competitive aggressiveness and firm performance, respectively.
AB - While prior Information Systems and Operations Management literature emphasizes the role of both the firm's IT infrastructure and the general degree of competition as antecedents of firm performance, the organizational capabilities that mediate these important relationships remain undetermined. Responding to the increasing importance of incorporating environmental sustainability practices across the internal and external supply chain, this study proposes green supply chain management as an important mediator of the IT infrastructure/competitive aggressiveness–firm performance relationship. Enabled by internal IT capabilities and external competitive pressure, green supply chain management capabilities support firms in achieving operational excellence, thereby contributing to the firm's overall performance. Using primary and secondary data on 203 large firms in Spain, this study applies the partial least squares approach to structural equation modeling. Its empirical analysis reveals that green supply chain management fully mediates the relationships between IT infrastructure capability and firm performance, and competitive aggressiveness and firm performance, respectively.
KW - Competitive aggressiveness
KW - Environmental sustainability
KW - Firm performance
KW - Green supply chain management
KW - IT infrastructure capability
KW - Partial least squares
KW - n/a OA procedure
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.03.056
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.03.056
M3 - Article
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 69
SP - 4667
EP - 4674
JO - Journal of business research
JF - Journal of business research
IS - 10
ER -
