Towards an adaptive strategic IT governance model for SMEs

Levstek, Aleš (author), Pucihar, Andreja (author), Hovelja, Tomaž (author)

Information technology (IT) can have a direct and indirect impact on business performance. New technologies change the risks at the strategic and governing levels of an enterprise. In the age of digitalization, we need to develop new understandings and approaches to governance and management. The most established IT governance (ITG) models, such as COBIT, ITIL and CMMI, are universal, one-size-fits-all models that are not in line with contingency theory and are predominantly designed for large multinational enterprises. They are too cumbersome and cost-intensive for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to use effectively. Therefore, there is a need to develop more efficient models that are contingency-based and easier to implement than existing models and thus adaptable to the actual needs of the business. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of key ITG mechanisms from the literature that clearly shows that several are not universally but situationally necessary, thus demonstrating the need for new contingency-based ITG models.

• Language: English
• Keywords: IT governance, IT governance mechanisms, IT governance models, contingency IT governance model
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 230-252
• Numbering: Vol. 17, iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-137033
• UDC: 659.2:004
• ISSN on article: 0718-1876
• DOI: 10.3390/jtaer17010012
• COBISS.SI-ID: 94727171
• Publication date in RUL: 30.05.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research
• Shortened title: J. theor. appl. electron. commer. res.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 0718-1876
• COBISS.SI-ID: 513419801

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.03.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: upravljanje informatike, mehanizmi upravljanja informatike, modeli upravljanja informatike, prilagodljiv model upravljanja informatike

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0018
• Name: Sistemi za podporo odločanju v digitalnem poslovanju