Mata, FranciscoFuerst, WilliamBarney, Jay B.2018-09-182018-09-181995-12https://www.doi.org/10.2307/249630http://hdl.handle.net/11056/14558The concept of IT as a powerful competitive weapon has been strongly emphasized in the literature, yet the sustainability of the competitive advantage provided by IT applications is not well-explained. This work discusses the resource-based theory as a means of analyzing sustainability and develops a model founded on this resource-based view of the firm. This model is then applied to four attributes of IT - capital requirements, proprietary technology, technical IT skills, and managerial IT skills - which might be sources of sustained competitive advantage. From this resource-based analysis, we conclude that managerial IT skills is the only one of these attributes that can provide sustainability.enCompetitive advantage IT resources Resource-based theoryhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501