Governance and Management of IS

Information Systems (IS) practitioners are constantly challenged to deliver ever more business value. However, the management of IS within organizations remains a significant challenge and governance is perpetually on the list of top unresolved challenges for CIOs. Central to this track is the investigation of optimal governance approaches and the management of the IS resource intended in its broadest connotation (e.g., sourcing models, reporting structures for the IS function).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• IT Leadership, including the role and characteristics of CIOs, IT/business executive relationships, and executive and board involvement in IT governance

• Strategic Alignment between IT and business, co-evolution of business and IT strategy, particularly in dynamic global contexts

• Strategic Planning Methods for effective information systems strategizing

• Governance/Organizational Design: Creating effective structures, processes, technologies within, between, and among organizations; accountability and responsibility for IT

• Management of IT Business Value: Designing appropriate structures, processes and capabilities for managing the value of IT investments

• Sourcing Decisions: The decisions and outcomes of various sourcing models including outsourcing, insourcing, sourcing in the cloud, offshoring, nearshoring, and shared services; location decisions

• Sourcing Practices: Contractual governance, relational governance, client retained capabilities, provider capabilities

• Novel research approaches: New theoretical perspectives and research approaches that broaden or question our understanding of IT governance

Mary Lacity
University of Missouri St. Louis

Magnus Mahring
Stockholm school of Economics

Paul Tallon
Loyola University Maryland

  Associate Editors

• Curtis Armstrong, Tennessee Technological University, USA

• Benoit Aubert, HEC Montreal, Canada

• Ron Babin, Ryerson University, Canada

• Nick Ball, Brigham Young University., USA

• Cecil Chua, University of Auckland, New Zealand

• David Darcy, Florida International University, USA

• Jens Dibbern, University of Bern, Germany

• Dale Elizabeth Ganley, University of Victoria, Canada

• Gerald Grant, Carlton University, Canada

• Robert Gregory, Göttingen University, Germany

• Cheng Suang Heng, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Ruey-Lin Hsaio, National ChengChi University, Taiwan

• Dong-Gil Ko, University of Cincinnati, USA

• Julia Kotlarsky, University of Warwick, UK

• Michael Kyobe, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Nishtha Langer, Indian School of Business, India

• Dorothy E. Leidner, Baylor University, USA

• Dinesh Mirchandani, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA

• John Mooney, Pepperdine University, USA

• Gary Pan, Singapore Management University, Singapore

• Joe Peppard, Cranfield School of Management, UK

• Robin S. Poston, University of Memphis, USA

• Ron Ramirez, University of Colorado Denver, USA

• Peter Reynolds, MIT, USA

• Joe Rottman, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA

• Rajeev Sharma, University of Wollongong, Australia

• Harminder Singh, Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand

• Ning Su, University of Westen Ontario, Canada

• Ron Thompson, Wake Forest University, USA

• Tim Weitzel, University of Bamberg, Germany

• George Westerman, MIT, USA

• Martin Wiener, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

• Weidong Xia, Florida International, USA