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DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SEMINAR    
  
Understanding IT Innovation Assimilation by Firms – An Absorptive Capacity
Perspective
  
by    
  
Edward W. N. Bernroider

Senior Lecturer in Technology and Information Management
School of Management
Royal Holloway, University of London

  
DATE:       December, 14 2009, Monday
  
TIME:       3:00 pm
  
PLACE:      IB ROOM# 203
  
  
ABSTRACT

Motivated by rising concerns on delivering sustained value and organisational
agility from IT investments, this research project applies the theoretical lens
of dynamic capabilities and absorptive capacities to IT adoption.  I argue that
firms need to develop dynamic IT capabilities to effectively absorb and exploit
IT innovations, and, accordingly, more refined approaches than currently
available in literature are needed to model, measure and control related
success rates. This research suggests some methodological contributions and
organizational factors instrumental for IT adoption exemplified by Enterprise
Resource Planning investments to generate desirable business process related
benefits and subsequent firm performance. Empirical data suggests in particular
that organizational abilities to obtain and evaluate information and to govern
IT significantly affect success of ERP adoption. IT governance is seen as
strong contributor to business process improvements and subsequent
organisational performance. The attempt to link empirical findings into
absorptive capacity theory has received scant prior attention. More practical
implications may feed into commonly applied IT service management frameworks to
help practitioners focus on management practices for developing the needed IT
related dynamic capabilities and according performance management systems.
 
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