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Bringing the Organizational Dimension to IS Management: Re-thinking IS Strategic Alignment
Rodrigo Magalhães
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Abstract
The paper explores the concept of IS strategic alignment from a different perspective. It is argued that IS strategic alignment is not, essentially, a planning issue but is rather a managerial action problem. It is suggested that the theoretical frameworks which can usefully guide IS strategic alignment are the ones found in the behavioural traditions of strategic management and organization theory. The paper’s key contribution is in the application of Ghoshal and Bartlett’s (1993;1994) theory of managerial action to the traditional frameworks for IS strategic alignment, developed by authors such as [MacDonald, 1991] or [Earl, 1996]. The result is a new proposal based on organizational roles and organized into an IS corporate governance matrix.