Title :
BS-ISS alignment, BC-ISC alignment and firm performance
Author :
Yu, Xiuyan ; Huang, Shunliang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., Shandong Univ. of Technol., Zibo, China
Abstract :
The importance for firm performance of Business Strategy - IS Strategy (BS-ISS) alignment and Business Culture-IS culture (BC-ISC) alignment has been separately recognized in the empirical and theoretical literature. In this paper, we posit that BC-ISC alignment leads to BS-ISS alignment which drives firm performance and BC-ISC alignment leads to firm performance directly. Survey data from 155 firms confirms BS-ISS alignment partially mediates the link between BC-ISC alignment and firm performance. These new findings demonstrate the relation between BS-ISS alignment and BC-ISC alignment and suggest that they are important business resources since they significantly improve firm performance.
Keywords :
business data processing; organisational aspects; BC-ISC alignment; BS-ISS alignment; business culture-IS culture alignment; business resources; business strategy-IS strategy alignment; firm performance; Couplings; Cultural differences; Design methodology; Information technology; Instruments; Investments; Management information systems; Sampling methods; Strategic planning; Technology management; alignment; bc-isc; bs-iss; firm performance;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management and Engineering (ICIME), 2010 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5263-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5265-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICIME.2010.5477886
