It’s increasingly acknowledged that firms cannot be competitive if their IT strategies are not implemented methodically. A number of proposals have been made to prioritize strategic IT plan executions and determine the most appropriate models and architectures. While IT governance primarily focuses on day-to-day IT operations, enterprise architecture primarily focuses on designing the future st...

In many organisations, information technology (IT) has become crucial in the support, sustainability and growth of the business. The pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT governance, which consists of the leadership, organisational structures and processes that ensure the organisation’s IT sustains and extends the organisation’...

The module will examine the ongoing convergence of the corporate and market laws in relation to the universal issues in doing international business ethically. We will review the corporate governance mechanisms, the methods of expropriating investors and the current reforms of ensuring corporate control and diminishing of the level of corporate abuse. Topics covered include comparative corporat...

In recent years it has become questionable whether corporate boards are able to direct and control IT effectively. There seems to be a general lack of boardlevel information regarding IT which may lead to ineffective governance over it. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how this scenario relates to the agency problem and how agency theory may be used to offer a theoretical framework for a...

This paper aims to investigate the perceptions of Iraqi medium-sized enterprises’ board members on how information technology governance mechanisms affect their companies’ performance with help IT capabilities as a mediator. The study is based survey 223 using stratified random sampling technique. Structural Equation Model (SEM) method results show that structure and relational have significant...