What Affects Information Technology Capability: A Meta-Analysis on Aspects that Influence Information Technology Capability

The extent to which a firm deploys IT resources in conjunction with other resources is sometimes referred to as IT capability. The aim of this paper is to investigate what affects IT capability. To understand the drivers that affect IT capability, we systematically examined prior literature. Through a combination of deductive and inductive coding we have identified four generic IT capability aspects (organisational, people, relational and technical IT competencies). We then analyse how these four aspects affected IT capability by calculating effect sizes. _x000D_ Early results suggest most variance in IT capability can be explained by organisational IT competence. However, upon further analyses these results became inconclusive. Nevertheless, we believe an extension of our study would advance insights on aspects affecting IT capability. We discuss the limitations of our study and suggest directions for future research