The study proposes a due diligence process for future studies aiming to investigate the duration of competitive advantage due to emerging technology adoption. The proposed process is based on the premise that predictions related to the rate of adoption of technologies and the time it would take...

This study investigates the development and sustainability of a firm’s IT capability reputation from an IT executive’s standpoint. Building on institutional theory, we argue that IT executives will try to achieve external legitimacy - i.e., project an image of superior IT capability to...

Management's perception towards the competitive contribution potential of innovation with IT (ITI) can be likened to a roller coaster ride. Managers' confidence with IT rises some times only to fall later. Such an observation might have us believe that companies do not take a long-term and...

Studies which examine the effect of IT on firm performance make the implicit assumption that the choice of industry classification (e.g., SIC instead of NAICS) and the level of aggregation (e.g., 2-digit SIC instead of 4-digit SIC) is unlikely to affect the results. Given that practically none...

We introduce a data analytics course that accounting students complete during the first semester of their undergraduate program at the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Waterloo. The course positions analytics as equally important to their future professional success as...

The aim of this study is to provide a systematic analysis of the effect of information technology (IT) reputation (i.e., the accumulation of public recognition of the quality of a firm's IT capability) on bank loan contracting. More specifically, we are interested in the effect of IT reputation...