Enterprise Applications Led Resource Capabilities in Public Sector and Government in India: Key Insight into ICT for Development

Linkages Between Enterprise Applications, Resource Capabilities And Public Value

The RBV theory provides a valuable way for IS researchers to think about how information systems relate to firm strategy and performance. Literature on IS which use the RBV theory clearly concludes that firms with superior IT capability also exhibit superior firm performance (Bharadwaj, 2000; Mata et al., 1995; Ross et al., 1996; Feeny & Willcocks, 1998; Ray et al., 2001), but this becomes possible only through the interrelations and complementarities of other organizational resources (Powell & Dent-Micallef, 1997; Lopes & Galletta, 1997; Armstrong & Sambamurthy, 1999; Pereira 1999; Zhu, 2004).