How Does IT Ambidexterity Impact Organizational Agility?

One-Ki (Daniel) Lee (), Vallabh Sambamurthy (), Kai H. Lim () and Kwok Kee Wei ()
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One-Ki (Daniel) Lee: Department of Management Science and Information Systems, College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125
Vallabh Sambamurthy: Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
Kai H. Lim: Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Kwok Kee Wei: Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Information Systems Research, 2015, vol. 26, issue 2, 398-417

Abstract: Organizational agility is a significant business capability. Though there have been numerous studies about the effects of information technology (IT) capabilities on organizational agility, there has been limited attention on the enabling effects of IT ambidexterity, namely, the dual capacity to explore and exploit IT resources and practices. We propose that IT ambidexterity enhances organizational agility by facilitating operational ambidexterity, and that the magnitude of facilitation depends on the level of environmental dynamism. We test these relationships utilizing data from a large-scale, matched-pair field survey of business and IT executives. The results confirm that a firm’s IT ambidexterity does enhance its organizational agility through the mediated effects of operational ambidexterity, and that the dynamism of a firm’s environment affects these relationships.

Keywords: agility; IT ambidexterity; operational ambidexterity; environmental dynamism; moderated-mediation analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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