A resource-based perspective on information technology capability and firmperformance: An empirical investigation

The resource-based view of the firm attributes superior financial performan ce to organizational resources and capabilities. This paper develops the co ncept of IT as an organizational capability and empirically examines the as sociation between IT capability and firm performance, firm specific IT reso urces are classified as IT infrastructure, human IT resources, and IT-enabl ed intangibles. A matched-sample comparison group methodology and publicly available ratings are used to assess IT capability and firm performance. Re sults indicate that firms with high IT capability fend to outperform a cont rol sample of firms on a variety of profit and cost-based performance measu res.