The Impact of EA-Driven Dynamic Capabilities, Innovativeness, and Structure on Organizational Benefits: A Variance and fsQCA Perspective

Rogier van de Wetering, Tom Hendrickx, Sjaak Brinkkemper and Sherah Kurnia
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Rogier van de Wetering: Department of Information Sciences, Open University of the Netherlands, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands
Tom Hendrickx: Agfa-Gevaert Group, B-2640 Mortsel, Belgium
Sjaak Brinkkemper: Department of Organisation and Information, Utrecht University, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sherah Kurnia: Computing and Information Systems, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, Australia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-23

Abstract: Enterprise Architecture (EA) allows firms to create value on the firm and operational levels. This paper argues that firms’ EA-driven dynamic capabilities lead to innovative value-creating actions and, ultimately, improve organizational benefits. Hence, we propose a theoretical model that explains how these dynamic capabilities enable the innovativeness of firms. Moreover, we explain the contingent role of an organic firm structure and its relation to firm innovativeness. Data within this study is collected from 299 CIOs and IT managers. This study uses a variance-based approach and a complementary fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to analyze the model’s hypothesized relationships. Our study outcomes demonstrate a positive relationship between EA-driven dynamic capabilities and firms’ innovativeness as well as between innovation and organizational benefits. Our post-hoc analyses using fsQCA reveal various circumstances in which organic firm structure and valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutional (VRIN) firm resources are particularly relevant for firms to obtain high levels of firm innovativeness.

Keywords: enterprise architecture; dynamic capabilities; EA-driven dynamic capabilities; innovativeness; organic firm structure; organizational benefits; fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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