How information technology governance mechanisms and strategic alignment influence organizational performance: Insights from a matched survey of business and it managers

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 497-518

  Wu, Shelly Ping Ju ^a,b   Straub, Detmar W ^c,d   Liang, Ting Peng ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

^e NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Degree symmetric measures; IT governance mechanisms; Organizational performance; Strategic alignment

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENCY FACTORS; DEGREE-SYMMETRIC MEASURES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE; IT GOVERNANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW OF THE FIRM; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84933506000     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2015/39.2.10     Document Type: Article

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