Sustained IT Competitiveness Information Technology and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Resource-Based Analysis

literature, yet the sustainability of the competi-tive advantage provided by IT applications is not well-explained. This work discusses the resource-based theory as a means of analyzing sustainability and develops a model founded on this resource-based view of the firm. This model is then applied to four attributes of. IT--capital requirements, proprietary technology, technical IT skills, and managerial IT skillsm which might be sources of sustained competi-tive advantage. From this resource-based analysis, we conclude that managerial IT skills is the only one of these attributes that can pro-vide sustainability