The effect of strategic alignment on the use of IS-based resources for competitive advantage

By Grover S. Kearns, Albert L. Lederer. Journal of strategic information systems, 2000

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Using coevolutionary and complexity theories to improve IS alignment: a multi-level approach (2006, background): “Valuable research has been undertaken to establish a strong alignment between IS and organizational objectives and several alignment levels have been suggested to impact organizational outcomes, performance, and competitive advantage (Kearns and Lederer, 2000; Tallon et al ., 2000).”
Strategic IT alignment: twenty-five years on (2015, background): “…scales to ascertain the perceived extent of alignment between IT and business strategies (Gerow et al. , 2014), between business and IT plans (Kearns and Lederer, 2000; Kearns and Lederer, 2003), and in terms of shared knowledge and understanding between business and IT executives as to the…”
Workforce agility: the new employee strategy for the knowledge economy (2002, background): “…widespread support in the IS literature, which has established through many empirical studies that performance differentiation is achieved through the innovative use of technology and not through technology implementation alone (for example, Kearns and Lederer, 2000; Croteau and Bergeron, 2001).”
IT alignment: what have we learned? (2007, background): “However, Kearns and Lederer (2000) point out that while effective alignment of the IT plan with the business plan can provide competitive advantage, the opposite – aligning the business plan with the IT strategy – can result in potential losses.”