While normative research in IS has recommended strategic partnership-building between Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and top management (Earl & Feeny, 1994; Feeny, Edwards, & Simpson, 1992), many CIOs express they have difficulty in trying to prove the explicit benefits of such a relationship (e.g., Martin, 2007; Overby, 2003). Due in part to the paradoxical nature of and complexity involved...

This paper studies the strategic interaction between a foreign direct investor and a host country. We analyze how the investor can use his control rights to protect his investment if he faces the risk of “creeping expropriation” once his investment is sunk. It is shown that this hold-up problem may cause underinvestment if the bargaining position of the investor is too weak and overinvestment i...

Analysing a unique, domain-similar database including all horticulturalists in a major flower-producing country, this paper shows that a firm’s central position in a network significantly improves its financial performance. The effect of strategic positioning in a network is in large part mediated through its enhanced innovativeness. Strategically positioning in a network of firms contributes m...

In order to provide a competitive advantage to the enterprise, the business strategy and processes and its information system (IS) need to be aligned. Achieving strategic alignment continues to be a major concern for business executives and becomes more difficult to handle in an evolving environment. The literature provides conceptual frameworks dividing a company representation in independent ...

The emergence of network forms of organization on many business markets has led to the development of new management activities. One core activity is the management of a company's relationships with partners in strategic alliances. Responsibilities for alliance management are increasingly attributed to a new type of formal position, the alliance manager. Based on empirical data from the IT sect...

An organization fits strategically in a particular branch of activity if it has a sustainable competitive market position. Strategic integration involves adopting a strategy that takes into account both the mutations registered in the business environment and the development stage of the organization. In this context, the paper examines in a correlative vision the trinomial “strategy – strategi...