IS Capability
IS and Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Recently, there has been increasing interest in studying the “sustainability” essence to maintain the
continuity of the advantages of IS/IT investments. Sustainability and competitive advantage have a clear
distinction; while sustainability relates to an ongoing status, a specific competitive advantage might be
temporary (Mata, et al., 1995). From an IS point of view, sustainability is the organization’s ability to
provide continuous explicit value for businesses through IS/IT (Ward & Peppard, 2002). While IT
investments still provide effectiveness and efficiency and also seek out competitive advantage