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A resource-based view of the firm : integrating the role of IT as a strategic resource - an empirical study of South African personal financial services (Assurance) firms, 1999-2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. 502-531).
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| author | April, Kurt |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10047 A resource-based view of the firm : integrating the role of IT as a strategic resource - an empirical study of South African personal financial services (Assurance) firms, 1999-2003 April, Kurt Feeny, David Simpson, John Licker, Paul Business Science Includes bibliographical references (p. 502-531). This research explores an "inside the black box" view on how IT enables sustainable competitive advantage. Most researchers have investigated IT competitive competencies that make up a firm's strategic framework to understand competitive advantage. However, Resource-Based Theory (RBT) probes into the inner workings of a firm, suggesting that a firm's IT assets and resources are the basis of a firm's "rare" core competencies to compete successfully. Using RBT and research in the economics, strategy, and IT literatures, an initial "Framework of Sustainability" was created, against which the case studies were conducted. This framework was used as foundation to develop semi-structured questionnaires in which 45, 90 minute (on average) interviews were conducted with managers in the four firms. Both internal and external documents about the firms and the industry were used as sources of corroborating evidence. In addition, a "bottoms up" view was obtained with evidence gathered from a short questionnaire and focus groups discussions held with 178 staff employees in the four firms. 2014-12-26T06:17:20Z 2014-12-26T06:17:20Z 2004 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10047 eng application/pdf School of Management Studies Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Business Science April, Kurt A resource-based view of the firm : integrating the role of IT as a strategic resource - an empirical study of South African personal financial services (Assurance) firms, 1999-2003 |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | A resource-based view of the firm : integrating the role of IT as a strategic resource - an empirical study of South African personal financial services (Assurance) firms, 1999-2003 |
| title_full | A resource-based view of the firm : integrating the role of IT as a strategic resource - an empirical study of South African personal financial services (Assurance) firms, 1999-2003 |
| title_fullStr | A resource-based view of the firm : integrating the role of IT as a strategic resource - an empirical study of South African personal financial services (Assurance) firms, 1999-2003 |
| title_full_unstemmed | A resource-based view of the firm : integrating the role of IT as a strategic resource - an empirical study of South African personal financial services (Assurance) firms, 1999-2003 |
| title_short | A resource-based view of the firm : integrating the role of IT as a strategic resource - an empirical study of South African personal financial services (Assurance) firms, 1999-2003 |
| title_sort | resource based view of the firm integrating the role of it as a strategic resource an empirical study of south african personal financial services assurance firms 1999 2003 |
| topic | Business Science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10047 |
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