Aligning information technology and business strategy with a dynamic capabilities perspective: A longitudinal study of a Taiwanese Semiconductor Company

Towards a new framework for SMEs success: a literature review

“…In addition, their research reveals that smaller enterprises not only plan, but most of them plan in a formal way and use large time spans. However, several authors argue that the strategic planning process of SMEs is informal and is rarely supported by planning instruments with managers being too busy to plan and the market changing too fast (Chen et al, 2008;Chen et al, 2010;Stonehouse and Pemberton, 2002;Vodopiveca, 2012). Sumantra (2008) concludes that formal planning is not a necessary condition for success, but can yield benefits for all types of companies.…”

Information management for the internationalization of SMEs: An exploratory study based on a strategic alignment perspective

“…Contingency models have been used to study the relationship between business strategy, structure, IT strategy and IT structure (Bergeron et al, 2001;Chen et al, 2008), to define strategies for information requirements determination (Davis, 1982), to identify individual impacts of IT (Pinsonneault & Rivard, 1998), impacts of IT on learning (Leidner & Jarvenpass, 1995), impacts of IT problem solving tools on task performance (Vessey & Galletta, 1991) and impacts of IT on organizational performance (Bergeron et al, 2004).…”

Achieving top management support with business knowledge and role of IT/IS personnel

“…It has been argued (Henderson & Venkatraman, 1993) that the alignment between IT and business strategy is important for recognizing the value of IT investments. It has been shown in a single longitudinal case study that the lack of IT alignment prevents the development of IT competency in the company (Chen, Sun, Helms, & Jih, 2008). Further, a case study in four Chinese companies has shown that the lack of alignment between the business environment and IT caused additional IT implementation costs (Chang, Wang, & Chiu, 2008).…”