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【题目】 Information Technology Governance in Information Technology Investment Decision Processes:  The Impact of Investment Characteristics, External Environment, and Internal Context（信息技术投资决策过程中的信息技术治理：投资特征、外部环境和内部情境的影响）

【主讲】 Yajiong Xue，Ph.D，Assistant Professor，Department of Management Information Systems，College of Business, East Caroline University

【时间】 2009年5月13日（星期三）下午2：00~3：30

【语言】 中文为主，英文为辅

【摘要】

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 besides 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.

【主讲人介绍】

Yajiong Xue is an assistant professor of Information Systems at East Carolina University. She received her Ph.D. from Auburn University in 2004. Her research appears in such journals as MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Communications of the AIS, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, and International Journal of Medical Informatics. Her current research interests include the strategic management of IT, IT governance, and healthcare information systems. She worked for Pharmacia & Upjohn and Kirsch Pharma GmbH for several years. She serves as an associate editor of Communications of the AIS in 2009-2012.

 

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经管院08级管理科学与工程研究生及07级全体研究生必须参加.