Paper Info
Title
Governance Mechanism And Structural Power Fit: Evidence From An Information System Development Project
Abstract
This study identifies how relational and contractual governance mechanisms differently influence the distinct output of information systems development (ISD) performance at the project level. This study also reveals how the consequence of two modes of inter-organizational relationships (IOR) governance mechanism is affected by the gap of a dyadic partner's centrality within the network - the client's structural power (CSP). We collected dyadic samples of clients and vendors for 107 ISD projects and explored their governance mechanisms and project performances, all of which were evaluated by both parties. Our results first reveal a positive relationship between relational (or contractual) governance and qualitative (or quantitative) performance, respectively, but not vice versa. Second, the results incorporating a structural position within the network reveal that CSP facilitates the efficacy of relational governance to lead the quantitative performance, but surprisingly, CSP also mitigates the efficacy of contractual governance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1142/S0218843020500069
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
IOR governance, governance mechanism, structural power, network theory, vendor-client relationship, ISD project management, dyadic data analysis
Journal
29
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0218-8430
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sojung Kim100.34
Seonyoung Shim2354.94