The review of study on acquiring competitive advantage through information technology capabilities

The information technology application urges a business enterprise creation and the maintenance competitive advantage, having already reached a consensus in the academic circles and the fulfillment field. In the information technology applied process, the information technology capabilities is the essential factor which influences business enterprise competitive advantage, also is the academic circles and a practice attention important problem. Therefore, in recent years, the related information technology capabilities researches are very rich. This article summarizes the near 10 year information technology capabilities and the enterprise competitive advantage research literatures, analyzes the information technology capabilities concept, contents as well as the characteristics, discusses the information technology capabilities to urge the enterprise to gain the competitive advantage intrinsic mechanism, and in these foundation, propose the information technology capabilities research new tasks, hope to promote the information technology capabilities of the business enterprise research theories of development through this research.