NEBIC: A Dynamic Capabilities Theory for Assessing Net-Enablement

Bradley C. Wheeler ()
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Bradley C. Wheeler: Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1309 East 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405

Information Systems Research, 2002, vol. 13, issue 2, 125-146

Abstract: We propose the Net-Enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) as an applied dynamic capabilities theory for measuring, predicting, and understanding a firm's ability to create customer value through the business use of digital networks. The theory incorporates both a variance and process view of net-enabled business innovation. It identifies four sequenced constructs: Choosing new IT, Matching Economic Opportunities with technology, Executing Business Innovation for Growth, and Assessing Customer Value, along with the processes and events that interrelate them as a cycle. The sequence of these theorized relationships for net-enablement (NE) 1 asserts that choosing IT precedes rather than aligns with corporate strategy. The theory offers a logically consistent and falsifiable basis for grounding research programs on metrics of net-enabled business innovation.

Keywords: Theory Building; IS Research Frameworks; Net-Enabled Organizations (NEOs); Innovation; Digital Business; e-Commerce; e-Business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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