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

fYear

2010

fDate

16-18 April 2010

Firstpage

659

Lastpage

661

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIME.2010.5477886

Filename

5477886