AbstractIn recent rapidly changing competitive environment, E-commerce plays an important role on value chain. Many firms invest IT to ensure their success on e-commerce. However, how affect the firm performance when using information systems in supporting organizational e-commerce activities is still a question. The purpose of the
research is to explore how the IT infrastructure and e-commerce capability affect firm performance. The paper proposes and test a research framework to analyze the relationship among IT infrastructure, e-commerce capability and firm performance based resource-based view. At last, the paper points out some research suggestions for the future study related to the e-commerce capability and business value research. Keywords- firm performance
- IT
infrastructure
- e-commerce capability
- resource- based view
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What is the significance of using IT infrastructure in business operations?
IT infrastructure is the foundation that allows companies to seamlessly operate in the cloud. It enables businesses to build exceptional experiences that leverage new cloud technologies for consumers and employees.
How can the IT infrastructure affect the business?
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Is IT infrastructure a capability?
The infrastructure capability is the IT capability system which functions to realize computing equipment, middleware, IT platforms (databases), IT storage, IT networks and IT security infrastructure.
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