IDLab Seminar: Sequence Matters: Uncovering the Performance Impact of IT Implementation Order in Enterprises

We invite you to attend the International Laboratory for the Economics of Intangible Assets (IDLab) scientific seminar on 24 October dedicated to examining how the specific order of IT adoption (infrastructural, transactional, informational, or strategic) affects firm performance and identifying the empirically derived "ideal" implementation sequence to resolve the "IT productivity paradox."

Abstract:

Despite extensive IT investments, many firms continue to experience limited productivity gains — a persistent “IT productivity paradox.” Drawing on the resource-based view, this study proposes that implementation order may shape how IT capabilities translate into performance. Using panel data on Russian enterprises, we integrate multi-year IT adoption records with financial metrics. Each technology is categorized as infrastructural, transactional, informational, or strategic (Aral & Weill, 2007). We reconstruct firms’ technology adoption sequences, measure similarity, and cluster firms with comparable trajectories. The study examines whether specific adoption paths are systematically associated with superior performance, identifying an empirically derived “ideal” order of implementation. By introducing a sequence-based perspective, this work extends IT portfolio and profile theory with a temporal integration dimension and proposes sequence alignment as a potential indicator of digital transformation readiness. The findings aim to inform IT governance by emphasizing the strategic orchestration of technology roadmaps that build foundational capabilities before advanced applications.

Seminar language: English

When and where?

 October 24th, 2025 (Friday), online

 17:00 GMT+5 (Perm time) / 15:00 GMT+3 (Moscow time)

To attend the seminar, please complete the registration form: