Exploring the Impact of IT Governance Mechanisms on IT Agility

ABSTRACT

As Information Technology (IT) becomes more integral, the importance of governance and the need to adapt IT to respond to environmental changes and opportunities increases. This study analyzes the impact of IT governance relational mechanisms, processes, and structures on IT agility. A practitioner focus group and survey shows that only relational governance mechanisms have a significant positive impact on IT agility. We discuss the implications for practitioners and researchers interested in IT governance and agility.

KEYWORDS:

• It governance
• it governance processes
• it governance mechanisms
• relational mechanisms
• it agility

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. This study was approved by the Applied Ethics Research Center of Middle East Technical University (protocol number 0139-ODTUİAEK-2022).

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Notes on contributors

Burçin Sarı

Burcin Sari earned her Ph.D. from the Informatics Institute at METU, Turkey. She holds a BA in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University and an MSc in IT Auditing and Cyber Security from Temple University. With over a decade of experience as an IT auditor, Dr. Sari has accumulated valuable expertise from her roles at prestigious organizations such as The Vanguard Group, Ernst & Young, Yapi Kredi Bankasi, and Aselsan. Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to enhancing IT governance practices and contributing to cybersecurity strategies.

Sevgi Özkan Yıldırım

Sevgi Özkan Yıldırım is a Professor at Department of Information Systems, METU Graduate School of Informatics. She received her BA and MA degrees in Engineering-Electrical and Information Sciences from Cambridge University in 1998 and 2002 respectively. She received a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in 2008 (Brunel University, UK), in addition to her MSc degree in Business Information Systems in 1999 (University of London, UK) and her PhD degree in Information Systems in 2006. Her research interests are information systems evaluation, assessment and performance measurement, information technology management and governance, e-learning systems evaluation, electronic quality evaluation, internet related ICTs in developing countries.

Munir Mandviwalla

Munir Mandviwalla is Professor of Management Information Systems, Milton F. Stauffer Senior Research Fellow, and Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Information Technology, Fox School of Business, Temple University. Mandviwalla applies design to improve business and society on topics such as digital transformation and workforce development. His research has been published in top journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions, Public Administration Review, and others. Mandviwalla has received awards from AIS, IBM, Microsoft, Claremont Graduate University, and Temple University. He holds a BSc from Boston University, and an MBA and PhD from Claremont Graduate University.

David Schuff

David Schuff is Professor, Information Technology and Innovation Area, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. He has published over 60 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. David’s research interests include the application of information visualization to decision support, self-service business intelligence, and user-generated content’s impact on organizations and society. His work has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, Information Systems Journal, and Information Systems Frontiers. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Arizona State University.