The primary objective of this paper is to examine whether top management’s IT knowledge and the firm’s use of important IT governance mechanisms reliably contribute to a firm’s financial performance. We found that IT knowledge at top executive levels and the board is associated with a company’s use of IT governance mechanisms such as CIOs and IT strategy committees that lead to improved financi...

Drawing on an in-depth analysis of eight global health networks, a recent essay in this journal argued that global health networks face four challenges to their effectiveness: problem definition, positioning, coalition-building, and governance. While sharing the argument of the essay concerned, in this commentary, we argue that these analytical concepts can be used to explicate a concept that h...

Empirical studies into the governance of Information Technology (IT) have advanced our understanding of the mechanisms used to control the management of IT. However, there has been relatively little research into the formulation of a theoretical model of IT governance that explains and organises the growing collection of mechanisms into a coherent whole. To further advance the concept of the co...

The mechanisms of information technology (IT) governance have been widely recognized as practices to sustain alignment of business and IT units. However, the IT governance literature so far has drawn little attention to the possible idiosyncrasies of governance arrangements in the public sector. In this paper we propose a conceptual model to investigate the relationship between IT governance me...

Previous research has identified significant risks involved in IT sourcing, which can undermine business performance. IT governance research has proposed mechanisms to mitigate some of these risks. While this relationship seems evident, it remains unexplored in most IT sourcing research. Our review of IT sourcing articles published in the top three IS journals shows that, only 48% addressed gov...

Poor implementation of Information Technology Governance (ITG) leads to several IT systems performing poorly. Resulting discontinuity services, user frustration, loss investment, increased redundancy, duplication efforts, poor decision-making, and reputation loss. In Uganda, ITG is low as many public sector organizations are yet streamline. Yet, for Higher Institutions Learning (HILs), the unex...

The significance of governance has been recognized in IT Outsourcing (ITO) research and practice. While the concept of governance is rooted from various reference disciplines, as a leading knowledge resource for outsourcing, the discipline of IS has contributed to the conceptualization of ITO governance with multiplex interpretations and from different aspects. To synthesize these contributions...

India which takes pride in being one of the leaders in the field of information technology, especially software, however, ranks very low when it comes to Electronic governance-E-governance as it is called. It ranks 77 in a list of 133 countries that have been indexed for E-governance. It is, therefore, obvious that an attitudinal change, a change of mindset among political rulers, bureaucrats a...

The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management, organisation studies, strategy, and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how the deployment of governance mechanisms influences knowledge processes, such as sharing, retaining and creating knowledge. It insists on clear micro (...