Governance and Assessment Insights in Information Technology: the Val IT Model

Effective information technology (IT) governance mechanisms: An IT outsourcing perspective

Effective IT governance will ensure alignment between IT and business goals. Organizations with ineffective IT governance will suffer due to poor performance of IT resources such as inaccurate information quality, inefficient operating costs, runaway IT project and even the demise of its IT department. This study seeks to examine empirically the individual IT governance mechanisms that influenc...

Special Issue: Information Technology and Organizational Governance: The IT Governance Cube

Amrit tiwAnA is a professor of MIS in the terry College of Business at the university of Georgia. He serves as a senior editor at Information Systems Research and on the boards of Journal of Management Information Systems, Strategic Management Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He has also served on MIS Quarterly’s editorial board. His work on It governance has appeared i...

Assessment Mechanism of Internal Control for Information Technology Governance

More publicly listed firms have emphasized the effectiveness of internal control in an information technology environment. Hence, this study presents a logical assessment mechanism for appraising the internal control of information technology. The strategy is based on Gowin’s Vee structure. On the theory side, this study explores the assessment items of internal controls on information environm...

Information Technology Auditing: A Value-Added IT Governance Partnership between IT Management and Audit

Information Technology And Supply Chain Governance: A Conceptual Model

In this theoretical essay we apply three theories of governance in proposing a conceptual model of the relationship between information technology (IT) and supply chain governance (SCG) and its conceptions (contractual, transactional, and relational). We argue, theoretically, that with contractual governance, IT is used to control activities and processes across the supply chain and to enforce ...