Veröffentlichung

Titel:

Horizontal allocation of decision rights for on-premise applications and software-as-a-service

AutorInnen:

Till Winkler
Carol V Brown

Kategorie:

Arbeitspapiere

erschienen in:

Journal of Management Information Systems, 2013

Abstract:

This study addresses a major gap in our knowledge about the allocation of information technology (IT) decision rights between business and IT units at the application level, including the governance of applications delivered on-premise versus those delivered with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Building on the findings from a multicase qualitative study of organizations that had adopted the same SaaS application, we draw on three theoretical lenses (agency theory, transaction cost economics, and knowledge-based view) to develop a theoretically grounded model with three organization-level factors, three application-level factors, and application-level IT governance. Hypotheses derived from the model, as well as a set of differential hypotheses about factor influences due to on-premise versus SaaS delivery, are tested with survey responses from 207 firms in which application-level governance is …

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