Abstract In a digital world, information technology (IT) units routinely update their capabilities to cope with changing business requirements and frequent technology releases. Extending the dynamic capabilities literature, this article presents the concept of dynamic IT capability, a multidimensional first-order dynamic capability that enables IT units to assist firms in appropriating business value from IT resources by influencing a set of IT-related ordinary capabilities. Scholars currently lack a dynamic capabilities framework that explains, from an IT unit’s perspective, how IT resources can be acquired, deployed, integrated, and reconfigured to fulfill business objectives. To bridge this research gap, we develop a high-level framework that highlights three constituent components of dynamic IT capability: dynamic digital platform capability, dynamic IT management capability, and dynamic IT knowledge management capability. Through an extensive literature review, we identify and summarize the set of ordinary capabilities that each dynamic IT capability component creates and reconfigures. We then offer guidance on future instrument development. To encourage further exploration of this critical construct, we close by highlighting future avenues for dynamic IT capability research.

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动态信息技术能力：概念定义和框架开发

摘要在数字世界中，信息技术（IT）部门会定期更新其功能，以应对不断变化的业务需求和频繁的技术发布。在扩展动态能力文献的基础上，本文提出了动态IT能力的概念，这是一种多维一阶动态能力，它使IT部门能够通过影响一组与IT相关的普通能力来协助公司从IT资源中获取业务价值。当前，学者们缺乏一个动态的功能框架，该框架从IT部门的角度解释了如何获取，部署，集成和重新配置IT资源以实现业务目标。为了弥合这一研究差距，我们开发了一个高级框架，重点介绍了动态IT功能的三个组成部分：动态数字平台功能，动态IT管理功能和动态IT知识管理功能。通过广泛的文献回顾，我们确定并总结了每个动态IT功能组件创建和重新配置的一组普通功能。然后，我们为将来的仪器开发提供指导。为了鼓励进一步探索这一关键结构，我们在结尾处着重介绍了动态IT能力研究的未来途径。