Information Technology Adoption and Managerial Improvisation Capability: A NeuroIS Perspective

Managerial adoption of information technology and consequent value appropriation has been a matter of academic research interest for many decades. This short paper draws on varied streams of academic literature such as IS strategy and capabilities, neuroscience of musical improvisation, NeuroIS, and neural correlates of technology adoption to propose a novel NeuroIS-based approach to differentiating between various managerial capabilities, and specifically providing a neural basis for managerial improvisation capability. This study can potentially contribute significantly towards demonstrating the existence of managerial improvisational capability at play in organizations and highlighting the role of information technology adoption in the development of improvisational capability in managers.