TY - GEN
T1 - Time for Climate Change: Leadership, IT Climate, and their Impact on Organizational Performance
AU - Wunderlich, Nico
AU - Beck, Roman
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Information systems (IS) have become essential for operating firms successfully. How to align business and information technology (IT) executives to increase organizational output has been widely discussed in literature. This research focusses on pre-requisites and consequences of a positive IT climate in organizations where the need for deep IT and business knowledge is constantly increasing. We shed light on how organizational leaders, both from business and IT, influence a positive organizational IT climate by IT leadership and subsequently, how an organizational IT climate affects strategic alignment and firm performance. By applying a two steps approach, this study evaluates the results of a survey among 322 IT decision makers in the U.S. working in knowledge intensive and less knowledge intensive industries. Our findings illustrate that IT leadership and IT climate differ between the two groups, and can confirm organization wide firm IS knowledge as a strategically important resource to achieve organizational performance.
AB - Information systems (IS) have become essential for operating firms successfully. How to align business and information technology (IT) executives to increase organizational output has been widely discussed in literature. This research focusses on pre-requisites and consequences of a positive IT climate in organizations where the need for deep IT and business knowledge is constantly increasing. We shed light on how organizational leaders, both from business and IT, influence a positive organizational IT climate by IT leadership and subsequently, how an organizational IT climate affects strategic alignment and firm performance. By applying a two steps approach, this study evaluates the results of a survey among 322 IT decision makers in the U.S. working in knowledge intensive and less knowledge intensive industries. Our findings illustrate that IT leadership and IT climate differ between the two groups, and can confirm organization wide firm IS knowledge as a strategically important resource to achieve organizational performance.
U2 - 10.24251/HICSS.2017.611
DO - 10.24251/HICSS.2017.611
M3 - Conference article
SP - 5037
EP - 5046
JO - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
JF - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SN - 1060-3425
ER -