IT Committee Design and IT Performance

Rui Huang

2012

Abstract

In order to improve IT performance and ultimately business-IT alignment, organizations have given increased attentions to IT committees as a governance structure. Looking through the lens of network embeddedness and role theories, this study focuses on the design issues related to IT committees and argues that there is an optimal point in terms of an IT committee’s size and its composition. Empirical validation of the research arguments using secondary data will be the next step. If empirical support can be received, this study will generate both theoretical and practical implications to the IT governance literature.

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Huang R. (2012). IT Committee Design and IT Performance . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-12-9, pages 244-248. DOI: 10.5220/0004098202440248


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis12,
author={Rui Huang},
title={IT Committee Design and IT Performance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2012},
pages={244-248},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004098202440248},
isbn={978-989-8565-12-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - IT Committee Design and IT Performance
SN - 978-989-8565-12-9
AU - Huang R.
PY - 2012
SP - 244
EP - 248
DO - 10.5220/0004098202440248