[AISWorld] AMCIS 2019 CFP - Mini-track: IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment

[Lazar Rusu]

AMCIS 2019

Cancún, México, August 15-17, 2019

https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/

Mini-track: IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment
Track: Strategic and Competitive Uses of Information Technology

We kindly invite you to submit your manuscripts to the Mini-track: IT 
Governance and Business-IT Alignment at AMCIS 2019.

Mini-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 corporate governance, exercised 
by the Board, overseeing the definition and implementation of processes, 
structures and relational mechanism 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” (De Haes and Van Grembergen, 2015, p.2). 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 and Ross, 2004, p.2-3). In their 
research Schlosser et al. (2015, p.129) have identified some specific 
effective IT governance mechanisms like “top management support for
business-IT collaboration and IT representation on the executive board” 
as key to social business-IT alignment at the operational level. 
According to De Haes and Van Grembergen (2015) the ultimate outcome of
IT governance is business-IT alignment that is defined as “the fit and 
integration among business strategy, IT strategy, business structures 
and IT structures” (De Haes and Van Grembergen, 2015, p.4). Concerning
the relation between IT governance and business-IT alignment Schlosser 
et al. (2015, p.126) have found that IT governance mechanisms like “top 
management support of business-IT collaboration, IT representation on
the executive board, and joint IS training” to have the “strongest 
relationships with business performance” that is explained by a 
significant degree of two dimensions of social business-IT alignment.
The importance of research in business-IT alignment has been mentioned 
by many researchers. Chan and Reich (2007) have found that organizations 
that succeed to align their business and IT strategies will outperform
those who have not done it. While, Luftman et al. (2017) have found that 
business-IT alignment has a significant impact on firm performance. In 
opinion of Leonard and Seddon (2012) there are two motivators of why
business-IT alignment continues to be important for organizations. 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 a 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 2017 (Kappelman et 
al., 2018). 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. In this mini-track we are looking to receive papers that 
reports innovative research studies and new insights into the theories, 
models and practices in research of IT governance and business-IT alignment.

We are welcoming the submission of full research papers and Emergent 
Research Forum (a research in progress option) papers using a variety of 
research methodologies. More information about types of submissions  you 
will find at the following link: 
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/papers. 


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 and business-IT 
alignment
• Organizational structure influence on IT governance and business-IT 
alignment
• IT governance and business performance
• IT leadership role in business-IT alignment
• IT governance and business-IT alignment for digital transformation
• 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

The best papers in this mini-track will be invited for fast track 
publication in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and 
Governance (IJITBAG).

References:

Chan, Y. E., and Reich, B. H. (2007) IT alignment: what have we learned? 
Journal of Information Technology, 22(4), 297-315.
De Haes, S., and Van Grembergen, W. (2015) Enterprise Governance of 
Information Technology: Achieving Alignment and Value, Featuring COBIT 
5, 2nd ed., Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Kappelman, L., Johnson, V., Maurer, C., McLean, E., Torres, R., Alsius, 
D., and Nguyen, Q., (2018) The 2017 SIM IT Issues and Trends Study, MIS 
Quarterly Executive, 17(1), 53-88.
Leonard, J., and Seddon, P. (2012) A Meta-model of Alignment, 
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 31, 
Article 11, 230-259.
Luftman, J., Lyytinen, K., and Zvi, T. B. (2017) Enhancing the 
measurement of information technology (IT) business alignment and its 
influence on company performance, Journal of Information Technology, 
32(1), 26-46.
Schlosser, F., Beimborn, D., Weitzel, T., and Wagner, H-T. (2015) 
Achieving social alignment between business and IT - an empirical 
evaluation of the efficacy of IT governance mechanisms, Journal of 
Information Technology, 30(2), 119-135.
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.

Timeline and Submission Details:

January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions open for AMCIS 2019
March 1, 2019: Deadline for paper submissions (10:00 am PST)
April 15, 2019: Track chairs recommendations are due
April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due

Mini-track Chairs:

Wim Van Grembergen, wim.vangrembergen at uantwerpen.be
<mailto:wim.vangrembergen at uantwerpen.be>

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

Steven De Haes, steven.dehaes at uantwerpen.be
<mailto:steven.dehaes at uantwerpen.be>