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Game-Theoretic Modeling: A Mechanism for Assessing Sustainable Business-IT Strategic Alignment in IT-Enabled Organizations.

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Title/Author:	Game-Theoretic Modeling: A Mechanism for Assessing Sustainable Business-IT Strategic Alignment in IT-Enabled Organizations./
Author:	Campbell, Arnett.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	386 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-10B.
Subject:	Business administration. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13857584
ISBN:	9781392061527

Game-Theoretic Modeling: A Mechanism for Assessing Sustainable Business-IT Strategic Alignment in IT-Enabled Organizations.
Campbell, Arnett.

Game-Theoretic Modeling: A Mechanism for Assessing Sustainable Business-IT Strategic Alignment in IT-Enabled Organizations. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 386 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Capella University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Aligning the strategies of business and information technology (IT) has been among the critical concerns of business and IT executives for over three decades and is antecedent to sustaining competitive advantage and superior financial performance of IT-enabled organizations. Although many have investigated this phenomenon in the past none has provided a mechanism that explains how business and IT strategies are systematically aligned and assessed to achieve and maintain superior financial performances. The primary purpose of this research was to explore the perceptions of business and IT executives from IT-enabled organizations in Jamaica to discover how they assess and maintain business-IT strategic alignment to achieve superior financial performances. This study used a multicase studies design to investigate the alignment problem and presented a game-theoretic model (GTM) as a mechanism for assessing business-IT alignment iteratively and repeatably. The data collection methods employed were in-depth interviewing and documents analysis. A formal interview protocol consisting of questions from extant literature and the strategic alignment maturity model (SAMM) facilitated the interviewing of participants. The sample consisted of senior business and IT executives with IT planning and decision-making authority from three IT-enabled organizations from three economic sectors: Education, Finance, and Manufacturing. The GTM combines the equilibrium level of maturity alignment from the nonzero-sum payoff tables, the financial ratios derived from the audited financial statements, and qualitative data analysis results to interpret the business-IT strategic alignment outcome, and also to identify components that are lagging in alignment. There are three key findings of this research. The first is differences of maturity levels and state of alignment among the six components of business-IT strategic alignment-the communication and competency/value measurement components exhibited misalignment for all cases, and there was a mix of alignment and misalignment for the other four components. The second is the financial performances for each IT-enabled organization differed. The third is that cases with higher levels of alignment maturity had better financial performance outcomes. These results imply that academics and practitioners interested in fine-tuning business-IT alignment could use the GTM as a management tool for pinpointing components that are lagging in alignment. Further study could disaggregate the perspectives of business, and IT teams to facilitate the mapping of maturity levels and perspectives. Also, a further study could investigate the levels of maturity equilibria and state of business-IT alignment that may trigger sustainable and superior financial performances in IT-enabled organizations.

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3168311
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