Despite the financial crisis and ongoing need for cost cutting, companies all around the world heavily invest in Information Systems (IS) and underlying Information Technology (IT). Proliferation of governance of enterprise IT helps companies manage, or rather, governs IS as a primary business function with executive management involved in making decision about IS and IT. The business value of ...

This study aims to enrich and expand the conceptualization of IT governance by identifying the diversity of hybrid configurations and integration mechanisms and exploring the IT performance effects. While literature describes the prevailing configurations for formally allocating IT decision-making authority, previous studies have not addressed the complexity of hybrid configurations, the requir...

The existing research on IT governance focuses on understanding enterprise-wide governance, including the major IT-related decisions to be made, the location of decision rights, and governance mechanisms that facilitate decision-making processes in large organizations. Our knowledge about the effects of IT governance structures on IT-use in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SME), however, is l...

Much has been learned through IT governance research about the nature of ITrelated decisions, the location of decision rights for these decisions, and governance mechanisms applied to facilitate associated decision processes in large organisations. Our knowledge about IT governance structures in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), on the other hand, is quite limited. Adopting a qualitativ...

Although recent years have seen enormous growth in the nature and extent of IT outsourcing, organizations still struggle with factors that contribute to effective outsourcing. Drawing upon two theoretical lenses – formal and informal governance mechanisms and relational exchange theory – this study explores the relationships between four dimensions of governance (contractual governance, structu...

Legislators, regulators, and shareholders increasingly demand good governance over all aspects of their business. While much is made of financial governance, most legislation and regulation implicitly recognizes the need for prudent governance of information technology (IT) functions. In this study we conduct an exploratory collective case study of IT governance (ITG) in two financial mutuals o...

REDD+ is a potentially significant financial mechanism for shifting the incentives from deforestation and land use change to forest conservation and sustainability. Even though REDD+ is not primarily a governance reform, it will affect or be affected by forest governance, it can improve forest governance or be undermined by its failures and, therefore, it depends on good forest governance if it...