Understanding the Board’s Involvement in Information Technology Governance

ABSTRACT

The body of research examining the board’s involvement in information technology governance (ITG) is expanding. While there is a growing consensus on the importance of this phenomena, the focal concept is still shrouded in confusion. Drawing upon theories on corporate governance, we develop a unifying analytical (Type 1) theory delineating the board’s involvement in ITG. The proposed theory can be used by researchers for investigating this phenomenon, and by practitioners for training and policy formulation.

KEYWORDS:

• Corporate governance
• IT governance
• board of directors

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Notes

1. A complete list of the board’s 308 ITG responsibilities employed in this study can be made available by the authors upon request.

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Notes on contributors

Moksh Matta

Moksh Matta is an Assistant Professor of ITOM in the Nanyang Business School, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the industry focusing on business intelligence and data visualization. His academic research interests focus on IT Management and IT Value.

Hasan Cavusoglu

Moksh Matta is an Assistant Professor of ITOM in the Nanyang Business School, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the industry focusing on business intelligence and data visualization. His academic research interests focus on IT Management and IT Value.

Hasan Cavusoglu is an associate professor of MIS in Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. His current research interests are economics of information systems, economics of information security and privacy, and IT management. His research has appeared in Management Science, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Information Systems Research.

Izak Benbasat

Izak Benbasat is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former Canada Research Chair in IT Management (2001–2014), and Sauder Distinguished Professor of Information Systems Emeritus at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievements in Information Systems from the Association for Information Systems, and was conferred the title of Distinguished Fellow by the INFORMS Information Systems Society. His research has appeared in Management Science, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Information Systems Research.