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AMCIS 2019
Cancún, México, August 15-17, 2019
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/
Mini-track: IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment
Track: Strategic and Competitive Uses of Information Technology
We kindly invite you to submit your manuscripts to the Mini-track:
IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment at AMCIS 2019.
Mini-track Description:
In many organizations, information technology (IT) is crucial for
the running and growth of the businesses that calls for a specific
focus on IT governance or enterprise governance of IT. Enterprise
governance of
IT is defined to be “an integral part of corporate governance,
exercised by the Board, overseeing the definition and
implementation of processes, structures and relational mechanism
in the organization that enable both
business and IT people to execute their responsibilities in
support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business
value from IT-enabled business investments” (De Haes and Van
Grembergen, 2015, p.2). But to
generate value from IT a company needs to have implemented an
effective IT governance in place which is “an actively designed
set of IT governance mechanisms” that supports “organization’s
mission, strategy,
values, norms and culture” (Weill and Ross, 2004, p.2-3). In their
research Schlosser et al. (2015, p.129) have identified some
specific effective IT governance mechanisms like “top management
support for
business-IT collaboration and IT representation on the executive
board” as key to social business-IT alignment at the operational
level. According to De Haes and Van Grembergen (2015) the ultimate
outcome of
IT governance is business-IT alignment that is defined as “the fit
and integration among business strategy, IT strategy, business
structures and IT structures” (De Haes and Van Grembergen, 2015,
p.4). Concerning
the relation between IT governance and business-IT alignment
Schlosser et al. (2015, p.126) have found that IT governance
mechanisms like “top management support of business-IT
collaboration, IT representation on
the executive board, and joint IS training” to have the “strongest
relationships with business performance” that is explained by a
significant degree of two dimensions of social business-IT
alignment.
The importance of research in business-IT alignment has been
mentioned by many researchers. Chan and Reich (2007) have found
that organizations that succeed to align their business and IT
strategies will outperform
those who have not done it. While, Luftman et al. (2017) have
found that business-IT alignment has a significant impact on firm
performance. In opinion of Leonard and Seddon (2012) there are two
motivators of why
business-IT alignment continues to be important for organizations.
The first one is concerning the strategic benefits brought by
business-IT alignment and the second one is related to the fact
that IS managers
consider business-IT alignment to be a key issue for their
organizations (Leonard and Seddon, 2012). In support why
business-IT alignment is still a top management concern for
executives in organizations around
the world are also the findings of the annual study of IT key
issues and trends done by Society for Information Management in
2017 (Kappelman et al., 2018). As we noticed the research in IT
governance and business-IT
alignment has been explored for different motivates that are still
important for understanding the contribution of these studies to
the research in this area but also how can these studies could be
used by practitioners. In this mini-track we are looking to
receive papers that reports innovative research studies and new
insights into the theories, models and practices in research of IT
governance and business-IT alignment.
We are welcoming the submission of full research papers and
Emergent Research Forum (a research in progress option) papers
using a variety of research methodologies. More information about
types of submissions you will find at the following link:
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
• IT governance structures, processes and relational mechanisms
• IT governance roles of the board and executive management
• Business-IT relationships and business-IT alignment
• Organizational culture influence on IT governance and
business-IT alignment
• Organizational structure influence on IT governance and
business-IT alignment
• IT governance and business performance
• IT leadership role in business-IT alignment
• IT governance and business-IT alignment for digital
transformation
• IT governance implementation and its impact on business-IT
alignment
• Theoretical models for studying IT governance and business-IT
alignment
• Practices and cases on IT governance and business-IT alignment
The best papers in this mini-track will be invited for fast track
publication in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and
Governance (IJITBAG).
References:
Chan, Y. E., and Reich, B. H. (2007) IT alignment: what have we
learned? Journal of Information Technology, 22(4), 297-315.
De Haes, S., and Van Grembergen, W. (2015) Enterprise Governance
of Information Technology: Achieving Alignment and Value,
Featuring COBIT 5, 2nd ed., Springer International Publishing
Switzerland.
Kappelman, L., Johnson, V., Maurer, C., McLean, E., Torres, R.,
Alsius, D., and Nguyen, Q., (2018) The 2017 SIM IT Issues and
Trends Study, MIS Quarterly Executive, 17(1), 53-88.
Leonard, J., and Seddon, P. (2012) A Meta-model of Alignment,
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol.
31, Article 11, 230-259.
Luftman, J., Lyytinen, K., and Zvi, T. B. (2017) Enhancing the
measurement of information technology (IT) business alignment and
its influence on company performance, Journal of Information
Technology, 32(1), 26-46.
Schlosser, F., Beimborn, D., Weitzel, T., and Wagner, H-T. (2015)
Achieving social alignment between business and IT - an empirical
evaluation of the efficacy of IT governance mechanisms, Journal of
Information Technology, 30(2), 119-135.
Weill, P., and Ross, J.W. (2004) IT Governance: How Top Performers
Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results, Harvard Business
School Press, Boston, MA, USA.
Timeline and Submission Details:
January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions open for AMCIS 2019
March 1, 2019: Deadline for paper submissions (10:00 am PST)
April 15, 2019: Track chairs recommendations are due
April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due
Mini-track Chairs:
Wim Van Grembergen,
wim.vangrembergen@uantwerpen.be
<mailto:wim.vangrembergen@uantwerpen.be>
Lazar Rusu,
lrusu@dsv.su.se <mailto:lrusu@dsv.su.se>
Steven De Haes,
steven.dehaes@uantwerpen.be
<mailto:steven.dehaes@uantwerpen.be>
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