Factors That Influence the Social Dimension of Alignment Between Business and Information Technology Objectives

By Blaize Horner Reich, Izak Benbasat. MIS Q., 2000

1,595 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Management Information Systems

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ee6871ee034d0b56bc098e64393bfbdbf5581b99

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Information Systems

In Management Information Systems

Citations in the corpus

Who influences whom? Analyzing workplace referents' social influence on IT adoption and non-adoption (2009, background): “We expect that insights from social network analysis and also a social perspective on business IT alignment (Nelson and Cooprider, 1996; Reich and Benbasat, 2000; Tiwana et al ., 2003) should turn out to be very useful.”
Using coevolutionary and complexity theories to improve IS alignment: a multi-level approach (2006, background): “This component has been referred to as social or cultural dimension (Reich and Benbasat, 2000).”
A Resource-Based View of Strategic IT Alignment: How Knowledge Sharing Creates Competitive Advantage (2003, background): “Explicit articulation of the alignment outcomes—that is, business and IT strategies— increases organizational understanding and helps to ensure that these strategies are implemented correctly (Reich & Benbasat, 2000).”
The Repertory Grid Technique: A Method for the Study of Cognition in Information Systems (2002, methodology): “From a Personal Construct Theory perspective, the application of the RepGrid can provide insights into the quality of the understanding between groups such as Line and IT managers (Reich and Benbasat, 2000) and between users and technologists (Lind and Zmud, 1991).”
Digital Business Strategy: Toward a Next Generation of Insights (2013, background): “…intrafirm and interfirm systems, business value of IT, and IT outsourcing, among others (e.g., Chan and Reich 2007; Hirschheim and Sabherwal 2001; Hussin et al. 2002; Luftman and Brier 1999; Reich and Benbasat 2000; Sabherwal and Chan 2001; Sabherwal and Kirs 1994; Sledgianowski et al. 2006).”
Information Technology and the Performance of the Customer Service Process: A Resource-Based Analysis (2005, background): “Additionally, recent research (Reich and Benbasat 2000) suggests that shared domain knowledge between IT and business executives influences the level of IT-business alignment, a key success factor long emphasized in the IS literature.”
Information Technology Competence of Business Managers: A Definition and Research Model (2001, background): “4 knowledge between line managers and information systems (IS) professionals to be an important factor in bringing business objectives and IT objectives into alignment [53].”
Using and validating the strategic alignment model (2004, background): “Reviewing various attempts to measure fit (Atkins, 1994; Lefebvre et al., 1992; Chan et al., 1997; Luftman et al., 1999; Reich and Benbasat, 2000), the authors suggest that there is little consensus on the factors involved.”