Abhishek Kathuria

Competitive Brokerage: External Resource Endowment and Information Technology As Antecedents

Researchers have demonstrated that firms in relevant network positions exhibit better performance and innovation. However, there is a need to understand the determinants of network positioning, especially in competition networks, which had received scant attention in the literature. This study investigates the external resource endowment and firm capabilities that determine firms’ competitive brokerage positions within competition networks. A firm in a competitive brokerage position lies between competitors’ paths or disconnected competitors. Firms in competitive brokerage positions are able to access novel and diverse information and knowledge in a timelier manner, obtaining a competitive advantage. In addition, they are able to mediate competitive attacks in different competitor communities. Drawing on the resource based view, the resource dependence theory and the structural embeddedness perspective, we investigate how merger and acquisitions and strategic centrality on alliances networks influence the...

Business Intelligence Capabilities and Effectiveness: An Integrative Model

Organizations may not be equally predisposed towards successful adoption and implementation of business intelligence (BI) initiatives and applications. A key to understanding the success or failure of BI within an organization, termed as BI Effectiveness, is the identification and assessment of BI Capabilities and their constituent dimensions. Using this theoretical foundation, we develop a conceptual framework that identifies four BI Capabilities, comprising of eleven dimensions, and offer three propositions that illustrate their effect on BI Effectiveness. To facilitate empirical research, we develop and cross-validate a questionnaire instrument to measure these new constructs, which can serve as a diagnostic tool through which organizations can assess the effectiveness of their BI initiatives. We thus provide a definitional and empirical context for assessing key BI Capabilities that directly impact an organizations effectiveness at BI implementation and use.

A Strategic Value Appropriation Path for Cloud Computing

Abstract Cloud-based information management is one of the leading competitive differentiation strategies for firms. With the increasing criticality of information management in value creation and process support, establishing an integrated capability with cloud computing is vital for organizational success in the changing landscape of business competition. These issues have received scant attention, however. We draw on the resource-based view, dynamic capability hierarchy concepts, and the perspective of operand and operant resources to suggest a cloud value appropriation model for firms. We argue that, to appropriate business value from cloud computing, 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. We propose a model encompassing the principles of infrastructure and cloud platform deployment, integration and service orientation, and alignment with business processes that explain the linkage from cloud computing to firm performance. We test this approach to value creation with a cloud computing implementation assessment model using a sample of 147 firms that have implemented cloud computing in India. Our analysis uncovers a strategic value appropriation path from cloud technological capability to firm performance via cloud integration capability, cloud service portfolio capability, and business flexibility. This research offers new insights regarding the underlying mechanisms for how cloud computing affects firm performance via cloud-enabled capabilities and the business functions that are supported by cloud capabilities.

Do Technological Resources Influence Competitive Brokerage? An Analysis In A Competition Network

Researchers have demonstrated that firms in relevant network positions exhibit better innovation and performance. However, there is a need to further understand the factors that enable firms to acq...