Does Innovation Mediate the Relationship Between ICT Use and Competitive Advantage? Investigating the Perceptions of Practitioners in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18450%2F25%3A50022440" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18450/25:50022440 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440251342085" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440251342085</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440251342085" target="_blank" >10.1177/21582440251342085</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Does Innovation Mediate the Relationship Between ICT Use and Competitive Advantage? Investigating the Perceptions of Practitioners in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Original language description
The aim of this study is to examine whether ICT and innovation resources can be utilized to facilitate the competitiveness of both pharmaceutical firms and contract research organizations (CROs). By using structural equation modelling based on survey data collected from 683 pharmaceutical practitioners in China, we find that there is a positive relationship between ICT and competitive advantage. Innovation mediates the documented relationship. When comparing hypothesized relationship across different respondents, CROs' respondents exhibit a full-mediation effect of innovation, while pharmaceutical firms' respondents present a partial-mediation effect. Our study sheds new light on the "ICT use - competitive advantage" nexus from the innovation perspective, and offers valuable insights for managers and policymakers in better leveraging ICT and innovative resources to achieve competitive advantage.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sage open
ISSN
2158-2440
e-ISSN
2158-2440
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
"Number: 21582440251342085"
UT code for WoS article
001512301300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105010926980