Effects on corporate performance through ISS-enabled strategy-making on dynamic and improvisational capabilities

Abstract

Purpose

This study develops the idea that resource orchestration (RO) of ISS-enabled strategy-making (ISS-SM) can influence dynamic and improvisational capabilities in innovation resulting in corporate performance (CP) gains under a hostile environment.

Design/methodology/approach

The structural equation modeling is applied to the data collected from 551 Brazilian firms.

Findings

The results suggest that ISS-SM facilitates dynamic and improvisational capabilities in innovation, consequently promoting CP. The research also showed that, under conditions of high environmental hostility, the impact of improvisational capabilities in innovation on CP is significantly amplified. Finally, in the specific case of high hostility, ISS-SM is especially important in enabling organizational capabilities on CP, for digital mastery firms, large firms in the manufacturing and services sectors.

Practical implications

The findings provide insights on how RO of ISS and resource management action enable strategy-making to leverage innovation and corporate performance during an uncertain environment.

Originality/value

This study developed an original contribution to resource orchestration, information systems strategies, and strategy-making literature through developing a novel construct of ISS-enabled strategy-making to enhance proximate and distal outcomes under a hostile environment.

Citation

Yoshikuni, A.C. (2022), "Effects on corporate performance through ISS-enabled strategy-making on dynamic and improvisational capabilities", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 71 No. 6, pp. 2161-2187. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-03-2021-0177