Development of Measures to Assess the Extent to Which an Information Technology Application Provides Competitive Advantage
开发了一个名为CAPITA的测量工具，用于评估信息技术应用提供竞争优势的程度，并通过185位信息系统高管的调查数据验证了其九维度结构，对竞争评估和实证研究有实用价值。
In order to measures the extent to which information technology provides competitive advantages, the construct “Competitive Advantage Provided by an Information Application” (CAPITA) was operationalized. A field survey gathered data from 185 top information systems executives regarding information technology applications which had been developed to gain competitive advantage. A confirmatory analysis revealed that CAPITA may be conceptualized in terms of nine dimensions which satisfy key measurement criteria including unidimensionality and convergent validity, discriminant validity, predictive validity, and reliability. The nine dimensions from the basis of a preliminary multidimensional measure or index of competitive advantage which has practical uses for competitive assessment. These include justifying and evaluating applications and acting as dependent variables in empirical competitive advantage research. Extensions entail formulating alternative measures of CAPITA to clarify the theoretical foundations of the construct, validating the latent-structure model on another data set, use of multiple informants for data collection, and exploring complex factor structures for the construct.