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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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