Title
A Framework And Guidelines For Assessing And Developing Board-Level Information Technology Committee Charters
Abstract
IT governance is important to the success of most business enterprises. One form of IT governance is the use of board-level IT committees. This study examines committee charters, which are the basic foundation for an effective committee. Based on prior literature and theory, we develop a framework and six propositions for assessing IT committee charter components including committee characteristics, member characteristics, and roles and responsibilities. We test the propositions by exploring the IT committee charters and information from other sources for 23 Fortune 500 companies. We find that most IT committees have more members and meet more often than required by the charter. All but one committee has at least one member with IT expertise as defined in our study. Also, most roles and responsibilities are focused on the five IT governance focus areas prescribed by the Information Technology Governance Institute. However, the roles are not consistently specified in all charters. Suggestions for future research and guidelines for practice are provided.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.2308/isys-51674
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
IT governance, board-level IT committee, committee charter
Corporate governance,Information technology,Computer science,Public relations,Charter
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
1
0888-7985
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
23
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jean Price150.74
Nancy K. Lankton219515.73