Title: Product architecture and organisational capabilities' impact on performance: Taiwan's IT industry

Authors: Ing-Shane Yung; Chin-Fa Tsai

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, National Chiayi University, No. 580, Xinmin Rd., West Dist., Chiayi City 60054, Taiwan ' Department of Business Administration, National Chiayi University, No. 580, Xinmin Rd., West Dist., Chiayi City 60054, Taiwan

Abstract: Combining the theories of resource-based and product architecture, this study examines the impact of the fitness of product architecture and organisational capability on business performance. The empirical data was collected from five high-tech and IT industries in Taiwan. A total of 217 companies returned the questionnaires and the data was analysed using chi-square tests and regression analysis. The results show that different organisational capabilities correspond to different product architectures. Also, selective organisational capability has a mediated effect on modular product architecture and business performance. Against our expectations, however, integrated collaborative organisational capability does not have a mediated effect on integrated product architecture and business performance. Overall, this study provides a theoretical analytic framework to better understand the interactive relationship between product architecture and organisational capability.

Keywords: resource-based view; RBV; product architecture; organisational capabilities; IT industry; information technology; business performance; Taiwan; modular architectures.

DOI: 10.1504/IJITM.2016.077356

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2016 Vol.15 No.3, pp.227 - 250

Accepted: 04 Jan 2015
Published online: 29 Jun 2016 *

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