This study examined the relationship between information technology (IT) governance and software reuse success. Software reuse has been mostly an IT problem but rarely a business one. Studies in software reuse are abundant; however, to date, none has a deep appreciation of IT governance. This study demonstrates that IT governance has a positive influence on software reuse success. IT strategy a...

These days information technology (IT) is an integral part of all business functions. Hence, managing IT resources efficiently and effectively has become a challenging undertaking. In this context, IT governance has presented itself as a management tool that allows decision makers to focus their efforts on value creation activities that are closely aligned with business strategy. However, IT go...

Information systems are exposed to constantly changing environments which require constant updating. Moreover, security is an increasingly important quality facet in modern information systems and needs to be retained. Thus, long-living software systems “ages” not by wearing out, but by failing to keep up-to-date with its environment. In model-based system development, this leads to a continuou...

This review applauds the initiative to bring together Information Systems Strategy and Strategy-as-Practice research, as in this Special Issue. It highlights especially promising features of each of the empirical articles and develops an agenda for taking some of the themes further. In particular, the review points to opportunities for the intimate comparative investigation of episodes of Infor...

Recent research studying the link between law and finance has concentrated on country-level investor protection measures and focused on differences in legal systems across countries and legal families. We use recent data on firm-level corporate governance rankings across 14 emerging markets and find that there is wide variation in firm-level governance across countries in our sample and that th...

A fundamental tension between accessibility and governance exists in the design of healthcare information systems. In order to be useful in practice health information must be distributed, but as the information moves between systems — and different information governance policies — the risk of privacy and security violations increases. The lack of a persistent policy enforcement mechanism thus...

The informatics infrastructure supporting the Information Society requires the aggregation of data about individuals in electronic records. Such data structures demand that individuals be uniquely identified and this is critical to the necessary process of 'authentication' associated with the use of e-Business, e-Government and potentially e-Democracy systems. It is also necessary to the repres...