Impact of Information Technology Capital on Firm Scope and Performance: The Role of Asset Characteristics
基于交易成本与资源基础理论，研究了信息技术资本如何调节不同类型资产与企业范围（纵向整合与多元化）的关系，发现IT资本使窄价值资产企业减少范围、宽价值资产企业扩大范围。
This research draws on transaction cost and resource-based theory to examine how information technology (IT) capital moderates the relationship between different types of assets and firm scope—both vertical integration and diversification. The analysis suggests that IT capital enables firms with narrowly valuable assets to be less vertically integrated and less diversified, and enables firms with broadly valuable assets to be more vertically integrated and more diversified. The moderating influence of IT capital on the relationship between different types of assets and firms' vertical and product-market scope is consistent with transaction cost as well as resource-based traditions.