The usefulness of the Resource-Based View in information systems research

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro, Diogo Gaspar
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29824
• topic: Resource-Based View; Sustainable competitive advantage; RBV’s usefulness within IS; Sistema de informação -- Information system; Recursos de informação -- Information resources; Visão Baseada em Recursos; Vantagem competitiva sustentável; Utilidade da VBR no campo de SI

Today’s increasingly competitive and turbulent markets force organizations to rethink their business strategies, being a vital aspect to achieve sustainable performance and to stay competitive in such unpredictable environments. The Resource-Based View has been a prominent framework in strategic management for understanding how firms can attain competitive advantages, and with the increasing significance of technology and information as organizational resources, this project investigates the dynamic relationship between the RBV approach and the Information Systems field, seeking to uncover their mutual influences and contributions. It begins by providing a comprehensive overview of the Resource-Based View theory, tracing its origins in the field of strategic management. It then delves into the Information Systems field, elucidating the pivotal role of technology, data, and Information in modern organizations. This research employs qualitative analyses to investigate how RBV principles are integrated into IS strategy and decision-making processes, that comprised data collection through interviews to professors and experts on the area to assess the practical applications of RBV within the IS context. The findings of this study contribute to both the academic and practical realms, so as to help firms stay competitive leveraging their information and technology assets strategically, since these results are projected to be essential to scholars and researchers, as source of reference material to future research.