Preceding research attributed the lack of direct causal impact of Information Technology (IT) on firm’s sustainable competitive advantage. Numerous missing links include antecedents of the ITbusiness strategic alignment (also known as strategic alignment) and the sustainable competitive advantage. Furthermore, reviewers of recent literature have called for more research into the factors that af...

Strategic alignment is deemed crucial in understanding how organisational performance can be improved through supporting business strategy with other organisational strategies. Whilst previous alignment literature has provided foundations for identifying the dimensions and performance impacts of the strategic alignment, it is mainly based on dyadic relationships between, for example, business a...

Previous research has proposed different types for and contingency factors affecting information technology governance. Yet, in spite of this valuable work, it is still unclear through what mechanisms IT governance affects organizational performance. We make a detailed argument for the mediation of strategic alignment in this process. Strategic alignment remains a top priority for business and ...

How do organizations achieve and sustain the process of continuous adaptation and change that is necessary to realize strategic information systems alignment? While research has focused on developing deterministic alignment models and on identifying the factors that contribute to alignment, there is little understanding of the process as it evolves over time. In this paper, we propose that coev...

Strategic alignment, combined to strategic planning, is an important management tool. For this reason new approaches to strategic alignment promotion could help high-level management decisions and affect the organizational performance. This study of exploratory nature aims to develop an operational model of strategic alignment between business strategies and goals and information technology str...

Although business executives remain skeptical about the extent of payoffs from investment in information technology (IT), strategic alignment or the alignment of information systems strategy with business strategy continues to be ranked as one of the most important issues facing corporations. In this paper, we report on the results of a process-level study to investigate the relationship betwee...

Eight key IS strategic alignment studies are reviewed and classified using Miles and Snow’s business strategy typology in an effort to reconcile different approaches. Key findings include a high degree of consistency between study results along typology lines and support for a moderating effect of business strategy on the relationship between IS strategic alignment and business performance.

Beyond studies related to the importance of strategic alignment between business strategy and IS strategy as well as establishing a number of enablers and inhibitors, there is a paucity of research on how organizations actually achieve strategic alignment. We conceptualize the process of achieving strategic alignment from a decision-making perspective by deductively drawing upon extant literatu...

During recent years, IT alignment research has gained considerable attention in both academia and practice. However, so far most studies focus on the strategic-to-strategic IT alignment dimension, thus omitting an integration of the strategic-to-tactical IT alignment dimension. By drawing upon assimilation and institutional theory, our research model depicts a perspective on IT project alignmen...