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In recent rapidly changing competitive environment, E-commerce plays an important role on value chain. Many firms invest IT to ensure their success on e-commerce. However, how affect the firm performance when using information systems in supporting organizational e-commerce activities is still a question. The purpose of the research is to explore how the IT infrastructure and e-commerce capability affect firm performance. The paper proposes and test a research framework to analyze the relationship among IT infrastructure, e-commerce capability and firm performance based resource-based view. At last, the paper points out some research suggestions for the future study related to the e-commerce capability and business value research.
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Zhijun, K. (2011). IT Infrastructure, E-commerce Capabilities and Firm Performance: A Empirical Test Based on China Firm Data. In: Lin, S., Huang, X. (eds) Advanced Research on Computer Education, Simulation and Modeling. CESM 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21802-6_13
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