Antecedents of Strategic Information Systems Alignment in Iran
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Factors affecting business-information technology strategic alignment have been investigated in numerous research studies, mostly in developed countries including Western Europe and North America. Given that the Western world has a distinct business culture, there is reason to investigate the boundaries of the generalizability of these research studies. This article, therefore, investigates strategic alignment in a non-Western, developing-country context, specifically Iran. For this purpose, the antecedents of alignment in the existing literature were investigated. After categorizing them and developing a research model, the model was tested using structural equation modeling. Our main aim is to find out whether the antecedents identified in prior studies are also relevant in Iran. The results provide preliminary evidence of differences between the factors affecting strategic alignment in each region.
Authors: Neda Abdolvand, Mohammad Mehdi Sepehri
Institution: Tarbiat Modares University
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2418317049