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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN A SAMPLE OF ALGERIAN FIRMS
BERRICH Abdelkader 1 ; BENKADDOUR Abed 22 Magister in Marketing, PhD Student in Economic Sciences, Faculty of Science Economic, Management, and Commerce Sciences, University of Algiers 3, Algeria.
Article Id - IJM_07_03_018, Pages : 191-212, Date of Publication : 13, April 2016
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Abstract
The relationship between Information Technology (IT) resources and competitive advantage has been the academic focus of attention and debate issues. Although many researchers found that IT investments contribute to help firms gain competitive advantage, there are still those who doubt like Solow (the Solow Computer Paradox), and Carr (IT doesn’t matter). The aim of this study is to research the relationship between IT resources, which are divided into four categories: IT infrastructure, IT technical skills, IT managerial skills, and IT-business partnership, and the competitive advantage of firms. Using data from 30 Algerian firms and the Pearson Coefficient, the results indicate a significant positive relationship between IT resources and the competitive advantage. Furthermore, the results show also a significant positive relationship between all categories of IT resources from one side, and competitive advantage of firm from the other side. Finally, the results show no significant relationship between firm’s age, type of industry, and the competitive of firms. This work drives its importance from the multiple dimensions adopted in measuring IT resources and capabilities from IS literature, which is compatible with the complementarity of resources that leads to competitive advantage of firms according to Resource-Based View.
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IT Resources, IT Infrastructure, IT Technical And Managerial Skills, Competitive Advantage
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Dr. Anamika Rawat - Associate Professor, Department of Management Studies, SRK University, Bhopal, India
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Mr. C. Jagadeesh Vikram - IAEME Publication, India
Dr. K. Sreenivasaiah - Special officer Academics Joint Director office Mangalore and Asst. Professor of Economics Govt First Grade College For Women’s, Mangalore, Karnataka
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Mr. Mathew Abraham - IT SAP Finance, Schlumberger-Digital Enterprise Systems–SAP ECC, Houston, USA
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Dr. V. Suresh Kumar - Head & Asst. Professor, Research Department of Business Administration, Rajah Serfoji Govt. College (Autonomous), Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India.
Dr. Madhavi Madireddy - Professor in Management and Director, Aurora’s PG College, Ramanthapur, Hyderabad, India
Dr. Subramanian Shanmugam - Associate Professor, Department of Commerce & Business Studies, School of Management, Central University of South Bihar, India
Prof. Suneetha. Naisa - Associate Professor, Department of M.B.A, Pulla Reddy Institute of Computer Science, Telangana, India
Dr. Dr. K. Abdus Samad - Jamal Institute of Management, Trichy, Tamilnadu, India
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Dr. K.M. Chinnadorai - Principal, Kamban College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Mrs. D.Shalini - Assistant Professor, RVS Institute of Management Studies, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Dr. Vikram Mohanlal Agrawal - Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, B & B Institute of Technology (SFI), Gujarat, India
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Reviewer Board
Dr. N.Shani - Professor, Department of Business Administration, Nehru arts and science college, Coimbatore, India
Dr. T. Manvel Raj - Mohamed Sathak A.J.College of Engineering, India
Dr. Dhanuraj - Management Consultant, India
Prof. Sanobar Anjum - Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
Er. Deepika Ttiwari - Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, India
Er. Gajendra Naidu.J - ATMA, India
Dr. S.Saiganesh - Dayananda Sagar Business School, India
Dr. Bamrara.A - HNB Garhwal University, India
Dr. N.Shani - Professor, Department of Business Administration, Nehru arts and science college, Coimbatore, India
Dr. T. Manvel Raj - Mohamed Sathak A.J.College of Engineering, India
Dr. Dhanuraj - Management Consultant, India
Prof. Sanobar Anjum - Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Deepika Ttiwari - Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, India
Dr. Gajendra Naidu.J - ATMA, India
Dr. S.Saiganesh - Dayananda Sagar Business School, India
Dr. Bamrara.A - HNB Garhwal University, India
Dr. Hari Sundar.G. Ram - Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering, India
Dr. Anshul Gangele - Institute of Technology & Management, India
Dr. Davinder Sharma - BCIPS, India
Prof. Srinivas K T - CIMS - B School, India
Dr. B.Ravi Kumar - Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, India
Dr. Rajesh U Kanthe - BVDU, India
Dr. Swaranjeet Arora - Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore, India
Dr. A.Selvaraj - Gobi Arts and Science College,Tamilnadu, India
Dr. M.A.Lahori - Anekant Institute of Management Studies, Baramati, Pune, India
Dr. V. Antony Joe Raja - Prince Group of Companies, Chennai, India
Prof. Shraddha Chowdhary - Kasturba Gandhi College for Women, Secunderabad, India
Dr. Sivanesan R - St.Jerome's College of Arts and Science,Tamilnadu, India
Prof. Shraddha Mayuresh Bhome - Future Institute Of Engineering and Management and Future Business School, India
Dr. V.Rama Devi - Sikkim Central University, Sikkim, India
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ournal Papers:
[1] M Ozaki, Y. Adachi, Y. Iwahori, and N. Ishii, Application of fuzzy theory to writer recognition of Chinese characters, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, 18(2), 1998, 112-116. (12)
Books:
[2] R.E. Moore, Interval analysis (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966). (12) Note that the title of the book is in lower case letters and italicized. There is no comma following the title. Place of publication and publisher are given.
Chapters in Books:
[3] P.O. Bishop, Neurophysiology of binocular vision, in J.Houseman (Ed.), Handbook of physiology, 4 (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1970) 342-366. (12) Note that the place of publication, publisher, and year of publication are enclosed in brackets. Editor of book is listed before book title.
Theses:
[4] D.S. Chan, Theory and implementation of multidimensional discrete systems for signal processing, doctoral diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1978. (12)
Proceedings Papers:
[5] W.J. Book, Modelling design and control of flexible manipulator arms: A tutorial review, Proc. 29th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, San Francisco, CA, 1990, 500-506 (12)
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