Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
12-29-2018
First Page
1
Last Page
46
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Abstract
Organizations are increasingly turning to information technology (IT) to help them respond to unanticipated environmental threats and opportunities. In this paper, we introduce a systematic review of the literature on IT-enabled agility, helping to establish the boundary between what we know and what we don’t know. We base our review on a wide body of literature drawn from the AIS Basket of Eight IT journals, a cross-section of non-Basket journals, IT practitioner outlets, and premier international IS conferences. We review the use of different theoretical lenses used to investigate the relationship between IT and organizational agility and how the literature has conceptualized agility, its antecedents, and consequences. We also map the evolution of the literature through a series of stages that highlight how researchers have built on previous work. Lastly, we discuss opportunities for future research in an effort to close important gaps in our understanding.
Recommended Citation
Tallon, Paul P., Quieroz, Magno, Coltman, Timothy, and Sharma, Rajeev. “Information Technology and the Search for Organizational Agility: A Systematic Review with Future Research Possibilities.” The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2018, pp. 1-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2018.12.002
