[AISWorld] CFP ECIS 2016: IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment track

[Lazar Rusu]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

24^th European Conference on Information Systems, 12-15 June 2016, 
Istanbul: http://www.ecis2016.eu/en/

IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment track: 
<http://www.ecis2016.eu/files/downloads/Tracks/T19.pdf>http://www.ecis2016.eu/files/downloads/Tracks/T19.pdf 


Paper submission deadline: November 27, 2015

*Track Description*

In many organizations, information technology (IT) is crucial for the 
running and growth of the businesses that calls for a specific focus on 
IT Governance or Enterprise Governance of IT. Enterprise Governance of 
IT is defined to be “an integral part of enterprise governance exercised 
by the board and address the definition and implementation of processes, 
structures and relational mechanisms in the organization that enable 
both business and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support 
of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from 
IT-enabled business investments” (Van Grembergen and De Haes, 2009, 
p.3). But to generate value from IT a company needs to have implemented 
an effective IT governance in place which is “an actively designed set 
of IT governance mechanisms" that supports “organization’s mission, 
strategy, values, norms and culture” (Weill & Ross, 2004, p.2-3). On the 
other hand according to Van Grembergen and De Haes (2009, p. 6) “an 
important driving force to achieve business value through investments in 
IT” is business-IT alignment that is defined as “the fit and integration 
among business strategy, IT strategy, business structures and IT 
structures”. The importance of research in business-IT alignment has 
been mentioned by many researchers and according to Leonard and Seddon 
(2012) there are two motivators of these studies. The first one is 
concerning the strategic benefits brought by business-IT alignment and 
the second one is related to the fact that IS managers consider 
business-IT alignment to be a key issue for their organizations (Leonard 
and Seddon, 2012). In support why business-IT alignment is still the 
first top management concern for executives in organizations around the 
world are also the findings of the annual study of IT key issues and 
trends done by Society for Information Management in the second quarter 
of 2014 (Kappelman et al., 2014). As we noticed the research in IT 
governance and Business-IT alignment has been explored for different 
motivates that are still important for understanding the contribution of 
these studies to the research in this area but also how can these 
studies could be used by practitioners.
We are welcoming papers that reports innovative research studies and new 
insights in the theories, models and practices in research of IT 
governance and business-IT alignment.

References

Kappelman, L., McLean, E., Johnson, V., and Gerhart, N. (2014) The 2014 
SIM IT Key Issues and Trends Study, MIS Quarterly Executive, 13(4), 237-263

Leonard, J., and Seddon, P. (2012) A Meta-model of Alignment, 
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 31, 
Article 11, 230-259

Van Grembergen, W., and De Haes, S. (2009) Enterprise Governance of IT: 
Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value, Springer Science+Business 
Media, New York, NY, USA

Weill, P., and Ross, J.W. (2004) IT Governance: How Top Performers 
Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results, Harvard Business School 
Press, Boston, MA, USA

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Topics of interest*include, but are not limited to the following:

- IT governance structures, processes and relational mechanisms

- IT governance roles of the board and executive management

- Business-IT relationships and business-IT alignment

- Organizational culture influence on IT governance

- Culture role in business-IT alignment

- IT Governance and business performance

- IS leadership role in business-IT alignment

- IT Governance implementation and its impact on business-IT alignment

- Theoretical models for studying IT governance and business-IT alignment

- Practices and cases on IT governance and business-IT alignment

*Track Co-Chairs*

Steven De Haes, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 
<mailto:steven.dehaes at uantwerpen.be>steven.dehaes at uantwerpen.be

Lazar Rusu, Stockholm University, Sweden, lrusu at dsv.su.se 
<mailto:lrusu at dsv.su.se>

Wim Van Grembergen (primary contact), University of Antwerp, Belgium, 
<mailto:wim.vangrembergen at uantwerpen.be>wim.vangrembergen at uantwerpen.be

*Associate Editors*

Dragos Vieru, Distance Learning University of Québec, Canada

Joao Varajao,University of Minho, Portugal

Bjorn Johansson, Lund University, Sweden

Edephonce N. Nfuka , Open University of Tanzania, Tanzania

Daniela Mihailescu, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

Gianluigi Viscusi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Erik Perjons, Stockholm University, Sweden

Muhammad Khurram Shahzad, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

Shang Gao, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Ahmad Ghazawneh, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Mohamed El-Mekawy, Stockholm University, Sweden