The Pattern of IT Governance in Small and Medium-Sized Garment Enterprise

China is the world´s largest garment processing and exporting countries. At present, the garment enterprises in foreign trade are confronted with more complex external environment than ever before, such as, RMB Appreciation, high human capital, the sharp fluctuation of the ratio of export tax rebate and the materials prices and the global financial crisis. The garment processing enterprises should shift their focuses from oversea demands to domestic demands which need the supports of advanced management method and technology. And the information technology is of great importance to the garment enterprises. In the process of formulating the IT strategies, the enterprises should take the business strategy as the starting point. Professor Peter Weill of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his research team took five years to investigate 300 enterprises more than 20 countries and established a framework for analysis of IT governance practice (known as CISR Pattern). China´s research and practice on IT governance is still at initial and learning stage. This text, based on the research by CISR and the characteristics of China´s small and medium-sized garment industry informatization, offers the typical patterns of IT Governance, and carries out research on how the arrangement of the structure of different enterprise´s information management influence on the patterns of IT governance. These archetypes suit the situation of garment industry informatization in China and IT decision rights can be specified according to these archetypes.