Title: The role of IT for global firms in emerging markets

Authors: YoungWon Park; Paul Hong

Addresses: Manufacturing Management Research Center, Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo, Kojima Hall 5F, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan ' Information Operations and Technology Management, College of Business and Innovation, University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft, Toledo, OH 43606, USA

Abstract: In the contexts of slowing down of advanced economies and rapid growth of emerging economies, it is crucial for firms to deploy their product development capabilities that fit to the global market reality. In particular, increasing complexity in product development requires expanding roles of IT system that supports the overall product development processes. This article presents an architecture analysis framework and IT system methods based on core competence strategy. Using this framework, we examine the concepts and implementation details of linkage competence that integrates customer competence and technology competence. This paper suggests that these architecture analysis and portfolio analysis methods are useful for product development for emerging markets.

Keywords: global firms; emerging markets; architecture analysis; portfolio analysis; IT systems; information technology; information systems; core competence strategy; globalisation; product development; customer competence; technology competence.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2015.068483

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2015 Vol.18 No.4, pp.490 - 505

Published online: 22 Apr 2015 *

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