Grounded in the dynamic capabilities perspective, our study addresses the question of how information technology outsourcing capabilities can interact with other IT strategic capabilities to enable organizational agility through the ongoing reconfiguration of IT solutions. To answer our question, we built on the notion of microfoundations that undergird the high-level dynamic capabilities of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. Adopting a theory elaboration approach, we studied the case of a firm evolving in a turbulent environment, which had outsourced the quasi-totality of its IT services and had a mature IT architecture. From the case data, we specify two types of microfoundations: repeatability-related microfoundations (i.e. processes) and ability-related microfoundations (i.e. IT department structure, skills, simple rules, and communications) that undergird either information technology outsourcing dynamic capabilities or IT architecture dynamic capabilities. We propose a model that outlines how the interaction between repeatability-related microfoundations, supported by ability-related microfoundations, enables the reconfiguration of IT solutions. Our study also elucidates how a firm can follow a logic of opportunity enabled by their IT outsourcing and IT architecture dynamic capabilities.

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信息技术外包和架构动态能力作为组织敏捷性的推动者

我们的研究以动态能力的角度为基础，解决了信息技术外包能力如何与其他 IT 战略能力相互作用以通过 IT 解决方案的持续重新配置实现组织敏捷性的问题。为了回答我们的问题，我们建立在微基础的概念之上，这些概念巩固了传感、捕获和重新配置的高级动态能力。我们采用理论阐述的方法，研究了一家在动荡环境中发展的公司的案例，该公司已将其 IT 服务的准全部外包并拥有成熟的 IT 架构。从案例数据中，我们指定了两种类型的微观基础：与可重复性相关的微观基础（即流程）和与能力相关的微观基础（即 IT 部门结构、技能、简单规则、和通信），以支持信息技术外包动态能力或 IT 架构动态能力。我们提出了一个模型，该模型概述了与能力相关的微基础支持的可重复性相关微基础之间的交互如何实现 IT 解决方案的重新配置。我们的研究还阐明了公司如何遵循由其 IT 外包和 IT 架构动态能力支持的机会逻辑。