Relating IS capability to IS rent: Towards understanding the underlying mechanisms

Ard Huizing University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Onno Truijens Police Utrecht, The Netherlands

Abstract
Peppard and Ward (2004) have instigated the development of the concept of IS capability based on Resource-based Theory (RBT). The goal of this paper is to add scrutiny to their initiative by drawing on the complementarities between RBT and Industrial Economics, and by focusing explicitly on the mechanisms around information that lead to IS-based rents. We introduce an IS rent framework with IS rent as dependent variable for IS capability and four corresponding propositions on the decision-making around how firms address IS rent opportunities. This framework allows us to test whether firms with a presumed IS capability actually display IS rent-seeking behaviour.

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Reference:	Huizing, A., Truijens, O. (2006). "Relating IS capability to IS rent: Towards understanding the underlying mechanisms," University of Amsterdam, Netherlands . Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, 6(10). http://sprouts.aisnet.org/6-10
Keywords:	IS capability; IS rent; Information imperfections; Resource-based theory; Industrial Economics
Item Type:	Article - Volume 6 Article 10 (2006)
Language:	English
Email:	Ard Huizing (a.huizing@uva.nl) Onno Truijens (o.truijens@uva.nl)
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