Discriminating IT Governance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tiwana, Amrit; Kim, Stephen K.
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Iowa State University
• 刊物名称: INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7047
• DOI: 10.1287/isre.2015.0591
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 656-674
• 关键词: information-technology governance; KNOWLEDGE; DESIGN; COORDINATION; ORGANIZATION; decisions; BUSINESS; competence; modularity; alignment

摘要

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.