Plant management, the locus of decision making, and the information services department
Journal of Management Information Systems
Management strategies for information technology
Management strategies for information technology
Information and Management
Changing information technology and information technology management
Information and Management
Putting the enterprise into the enterprise system
Harvard Business Review
Organizational power and the information services department
Communications of the ACM
Power, politics, and MIS implementation
Communications of the ACM
Reconceptualizing the Context-Design Issue for the Information Systems Function
Organization Science
Information Systems Research
Structure and analysis of IS decision-making processes
European Journal of Information Systems
Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Navigation in information-intensive environments
Rapid Information Technology Change, Coping Mechanisms, and the Emerging Technologies Group
Journal of Management Information Systems
Innovating mindfully with information technology
MIS Quarterly
The role of IT in crisis response: Lessons from the SARS and Asian Tsunami disasters
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
IT governance challenges in a large not-for-profit healthcare organization: The role of intranets
Electronic Commerce Research
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
BlogTalk'08/09 Proceedings of the 2008/2009 international conference on Social software: recent trends and developments in social software
The Role of IT Governance Practices in Creating Business Value in SMEs
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
Journal of Management Information Systems
International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications
International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance
Journal of Global Information Management
The Impacts of Network Governance on the Performance of ITO: A Study of Taiwanese Firms
Journal of Global Information Management
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This study identifies governance patterns for information technology investment decision processes and explores the impact of organizations' investment characteristics, external environment, and internal context on the shaping of those patterns. By identifying the lead actors of the initiation, development, and approval stages in IT governance, the patterns of 57 IT investment decisions at 6 hospitals are analyzed. The results reveal seven IT governance archetypes: (1) top management monarchy, (2) top management-IT duopoly, (3) IT monarchy, (4) administration monarchy, (5) administration- IT duopoly, (6) professional monarchy, and (7) professional- IT duopoly. Each archetype is analyzed by taking into account four specific factors: IT investment level, external influence, organizational centralization, and IT function power. This study makes several contributions to IT governance theory and practice. First, IT governance is reframed to include pre-decision stages, highlighting the importance of participants other than the final decision maker. Second, the variation of IT governance archetypes suggests that even when top management approval is required, the IT department may not play a key role in the IT investment decision process. Third, governance of the pre-decision initiation and development stages is found to be jointly affected by several contextual factors, suggesting that the allocation of final decision rights is only a part of IT governance. While decision rights may be allocated by the organization a priori, the actual patterns of IT governance are contingent on contextual factors. It is important to understand how IT governance archetypes are shaped because they may affect desired outcomes of IT investments.