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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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