The concept of agility in IT governance and its impact on firm performance
- With significant advancements in digital technologies, firms find themselves competing in an increasingly dynamic business environment. Therefore, the logic of business decisions is based on the agility to respond to emerging trends in a proactive way. By contrast, traditional IT governance (ITG) frameworks rely on hierarchy and standardized mechanisms to ensure better business/IT alignment. This conflict leads to a call for an ambidextrous governance, in which firms alternate between stability and agility in their ITG mechanisms. Accordingly, this research aims to explore how agility might be integrated in ITG. A quantitative research strategy is implemented to explore the impact of agility on the causal relationship among ITG, business/IT alignment, and firm performance. The results show that the integration of agile ITG mechanisms contributes significantly to the explanation of business/IT alignment. As such, firms need to develop a dual governance model powered by traditional and agile ITG mechanisms.
| Author of HS Reutlingen | Vejseli, Sulejman; Rossmann, Alexander; Garidis, Konstantin |
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| URL: | https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2022_rp/98 |
| Erschienen in: | ECIS 2022 Research Papers |
| Publisher: | Association for Information Systems (AIS) |
| Place of publication: | Atlanta, GA |
| Document Type: | Conference proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Tag: | IT governance; agility; ambidextry; firm performance |
| Page Number: | 16 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 16 |
| Article Number: | 1548 |
| DDC classes: | 004 Informatik |
| Open access?: | Nein |
