Relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: An empirical study on MSC Malaysia companies

The progressive movement of globalisation indicates that developing economies, especially Malaysia, need enhanced and new level of labour force that can work effectively across national and cultural boundaries to achieve competitive advantage. Among the requirements considered critical to achieving...

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Main Author:	Lew, Sook Ling
Format:	Thesis
Published:	2012
Subjects:	HD Industries Land use Labor
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spelling	my-mmu-ep.55302014-05-20T04:13:25Z Relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: An empirical study on MSC Malaysia companies 2012-11 Lew, Sook Ling HD Industries. Land use. Labor The progressive movement of globalisation indicates that developing economies, especially Malaysia, need enhanced and new level of labour force that can work effectively across national and cultural boundaries to achieve competitive advantage. Among the requirements considered critical to achieving competitive advantage is investment in appropriate information and communications technology (ICT) applications, which could enable information infrastructure capability (IIC). However, managers always face with a lot of difficulties to obtain the appropriate IIC due to what is considered an elusive empirical link between IIC and competitive advantage. This research argues that IIC, if examined carefully and in a holistic fashion, would be able to create, store, share and use knowledge for competitive advantage. This research also addressed indirect relationships between IIC and competitive advantage. The conceptual model for this research comprises competitive advantage as the dependent variable and the dimensions of IIC namely, dynamic capability, integrating capability, data management capability, security capability, utility capability and collaborating capability, corroborated from past studies, as the independent variables. The capabilities, which were distinct but highly interrelated, constrain, facilitate, and reinforce each other. The conceptual framework of this research was underpinned by Organisational Information Processing Theory and empirically tested using a set of survey questionnaire, which was validated and reliability tested. 2012-11 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/5530/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/diglib/onlinedb/dig_lib.php phd doctoral Multimedia University Faculty of Business and Law
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topic	HD Industries Land use Labor
spellingShingle	HD Industries Land use Labor Lew, Sook Ling Relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: An empirical study on MSC Malaysia companies
description	The progressive movement of globalisation indicates that developing economies, especially Malaysia, need enhanced and new level of labour force that can work effectively across national and cultural boundaries to achieve competitive advantage. Among the requirements considered critical to achieving competitive advantage is investment in appropriate information and communications technology (ICT) applications, which could enable information infrastructure capability (IIC). However, managers always face with a lot of difficulties to obtain the appropriate IIC due to what is considered an elusive empirical link between IIC and competitive advantage. This research argues that IIC, if examined carefully and in a holistic fashion, would be able to create, store, share and use knowledge for competitive advantage. This research also addressed indirect relationships between IIC and competitive advantage. The conceptual model for this research comprises competitive advantage as the dependent variable and the dimensions of IIC namely, dynamic capability, integrating capability, data management capability, security capability, utility capability and collaborating capability, corroborated from past studies, as the independent variables. The capabilities, which were distinct but highly interrelated, constrain, facilitate, and reinforce each other. The conceptual framework of this research was underpinned by Organisational Information Processing Theory and empirically tested using a set of survey questionnaire, which was validated and reliability tested.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author	Lew, Sook Ling
author_facet	Lew, Sook Ling
author_sort	Lew, Sook Ling
title	Relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: An empirical study on MSC Malaysia companies
title_short	Relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: An empirical study on MSC Malaysia companies
title_full	Relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: An empirical study on MSC Malaysia companies
title_fullStr	Relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: An empirical study on MSC Malaysia companies
title_full_unstemmed	Relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: An empirical study on MSC Malaysia companies
title_sort	relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: an empirical study on msc malaysia companies
granting_institution	Multimedia University
granting_department	Faculty of Business and Law
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Relationship between information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage: An empirical study on MSC Malaysia companies

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