Strategic Alignment Between Business and Information Technology: A Knowledge-Based View of Behaviors, Outcome, and Consequences

摘要: Senior executives continue to be concerned about factors influencing the business effect of information technology (IT). Prior research has argued that business-IT strategic alignment facilitates IT and contextual affect alignment. However, role knowledge considerations in relationship between alignment, projects effects IT, have not been explicitly examined. Therefore, this paper pursues following two questions: (1) Based on considerations, how do planning behaviors (specifically, managers' participation planning) top management mediate factors-organizational emphasis centralization decisions-on alignment? (2) How aspects quality project implementation problems projects) IT? Results from a survey 274 senior officers indicate organizational decisions which planning, both these Moreover, results IT. These findings highlight importance considering when examining shared domain (i.e., IT) Managers can use develop more comprehensive action plans for achieving greater translating into enhanced performance.