The leveraging influence of strategic alignment on IT investment: An empirical examination

被引：145

作者：

Byrd, TA

Lewis, BR ^{[1
]}

Bryan, RW

机构：

[1] Wake Forest Univ, Wayne Calloway Sch Business & Accountancy, Winston Salem, NC 27109 USA

[2] Auburn Univ, Coll Business, Dept Management, Auburn, AL 36849 USA

[3] Covenant Coll, Dept Informat & Comp Sci, Lookout Mt, GA 30750 USA

来源：

INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT | 2006年 / 43卷 / 03期

关键词：

strategic alignment; IT payoff; IS strategy; IT investment;

D O I：

10.1016/j.im.2005.07.002

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

Businesses have invested enormous sums in information technology (IT). The challenge now is to optimize these investments. We empirically examined the influence of the alignment between IS strategy and business strategy (strategic alignment) on the payoff of IT investment. Many studies have been performed on the value of IT investment and strategic alignment separately, in the past, but here we combined them by investigating the moderating affect of strategic alignment on the relationship between IT investment and firm performance for a group of manufacturing firms. The results indicated that there is a synergistic coupling between strategic alignment and IT investment with firm performance. Firms that have aligned IT and business strategies can invest in additional IT resources with some assurance that they will be leveraged substantially. One of our main contributions was in the examination of four differing perspectives of strategic alignment and their relationship with the payoff of IT investment. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：308 / 321

页数：14

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