An assessment of the contingency theory of management information systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Organization context and information systems success: a contingency approach
Journal of Management Information Systems
Task characteristics, decentralization, and the success of hospital information systems
Information and Management
Structure and perceived effectiveness of software development subunits: a task contingency analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Collaboration technology, modeling, and end-user computing for the 1990s
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Information and Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
An Assessment of Electronic Information Transfer in B2B Supply-Channel Relationships
Journal of Management Information Systems
The consistency among facilitating factors and ERP implementation success: A holistic view of fit
Journal of Systems and Software
One Size Does Not Fit All---A Contingency Approach to Data Governance
Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)
The antecedents of IT-business alignment in manufacturing firms
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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With the advent of the widely heralded "new economy", organizations are undergoing profound changes. Interestingly, information systems/information technology (IS/IT) has emerged as the vehicle for launching new organizational forms so that market forces can be effectively managed to yield favorable business solutions. A critical issue for managers to tackle in this environment is the core idea of fit among organizational domains in order to optimize performance. The role of academics in this endeavor is to clarify the notion of fit conceptually as well as methodologically.This paper synthesizes alternative concepts of fit starting from congruence and contingency, and attempts to clarify the enduring concept of contingency beyond the common sense notion of "It depends". Then it demonstrates the enriching value of the principles advocated in this paper by incorporating these principles in a selected set of prior empirical work in IS. Finally, a methodological enhancement to contingency analysis is proposed--an alternate solution to the systems approach to fit.