Abstract
There is an on-going debate over the long-term value propositions of enterprise systems (ES) for competitive advantage, with many arguing that ES have lost their potential to contribute to competitive advantage in the contemporary hyper-competitive markets. While acknowledging that an ES is a valuable, rare and non-substitutable resource that is common to all competitors, it is further questionable how ES contribute to competitive advantage. Using the fourth characteristic of the resource-based view, we investigate how inimitability of ES can contribute to competitiveness. Using qualitative evidence from nine case studies this study derives three conditions that facilitate ES to be inimitable.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | PACIS 2017 Proceedings |
| Editors | Shamshul Bahri, Patrick Finnegan, Sia Choon Ling |
| Place of Publication | Atlanta GA USA |
| Publisher | Association for Information Systems |
| Pages | 1-12 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 2017 - Langkawi, Malaysia Duration: 16 Jul 2017 → 20 Jul 2017 Conference number: 21st http://www.pacis2017.org/ https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2017/ (Proceedings) |
Conference
| Conference | Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 2017 |
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| Abbreviated title | PACIS 2017 |
| Country/Territory | Malaysia |
| City | Langkawi |
| Period | 16/07/17 → 20/07/17 |
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