Title
Discriminating It Governance
Abstract
The information technology (IT) governance literature predominantly explains firms' IT governance choices, but not their strategic consequences. We develop the idea that a firm's IT governance choices induce adeptness at strategically exploiting IT only when they are discriminatingly aligned with its departments' knowledge outside their specialty. Discriminating means that governing the two undertheorized classes of IT assets-apps and infrastructure-requires "peripheral" knowledge in different departments. Analyses of data from 105 firms support our middle-range theory.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1287/isre.2015.0591
INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
IT governance, IT infrastructure, IT applications, discriminating alignment, IT agility, Garen method, IT strategy, endogeneity, IT asset classes
Endogeneity,Economics,Corporate governance,Information technology,Knowledge management,Technology strategy,Information technology management,Marketing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26
4
1047-7047
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.47
19
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amrit Tiwana1156482.28
Stephen Keysuk Kim261.53