Title
A capabilities-based approach to obtaining a deeper understanding of information technology governance effectiveness: Evidence from IT steering committees
Abstract
Given the substantial investment in information technology (IT), and the significant impact IT has on organizational success, organizations consume considerable resources to manage acquisition and use of their IT resources. While various arguments proposed suggest which IT governance arrangements may work best, our understanding of the effectiveness of such initiatives is limited. We examine the relationship between the effectiveness of IT steering committee driven IT governance initiatives and firm's IT management and IT infrastructure related capabilities. We further propose that firm's IT-related capabilities generated through IT governance initiatives should improve its business processes and firm-level performance. We test these relationships empirically by a field survey. Results suggest that firms' effectiveness of IT steering committee driven IT governance initiatives positively relates to the level of their IT-related capabilities. We also found positive relationships between IT-related capabilities and internal process-level performance. Our results also support that improvement in internal process-level performance positively relates to improvement in customer service and firm-level performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.accinf.2010.07.013
International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
IT governance,IT steering committees,IT-related capabilities,Internal process-level performance,Improvement in customer service,Firm-level performance
Corporate governance,Field survey,Customer service,Business process,Computer science,Information technology,Steering committee,Knowledge management,Information technology management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
3
1467-0895
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
26
0.92
50
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Acklesh Prasad18910.52
Jon Heales212319.81
Peter Green3808.34