ABSTRACT
The contribution of information Technology (IT) to the achievement of business objectives is an important management issue. Indeed, the 2001 Computer Sciences Corporation's annual survey reported it as the second most important issue for North American IT executives. The contribution of IT to business performance has been studied from two main perspectives: a 'strategy as positioning perspective', which underlines a market power imperative, and a resource-based view perspective, which conceptualizes the enterprise as a 'bundle of unique resources'. The objective of the present study is to improve our understanding of the contribution of IT to firm performance in building upon the complementarity between the two perspectives. To do so, a model proposed by Spanos, Y. E., Lioukas, S. 2001. An examination into the causal logic of rent generation: contrasting Porter's competitive strategy framework and the resource-based perspective. Strategic Management Journal, which comprises both a competitive strategy framework and the resource-based perspective, was adapted to reflect the role played by IT.
