Governance, Strategy, and Value of IS
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Paper Number
2494
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Completed
Description
While prior research shows that an increase in IT support for business processes leads to high alignment and IT business value at the process-level, few studies have provided insights into the organizational-level benefits of cospecialization between IT and business processes. This paper extends prior treatments of the link between IT and business processes by developing a conceptualization and measure of business process IT cospecialization. Grounded in the cospecialization perspective in resource-based theory, this construct accounts for complementarities between IT and business processes and offers a new lens to explain how the benefits of IT at the process-level translate into improved organizational performance. Using data from a survey of IT executives and from secondary data sources, we validate an operational measure for business process IT cospecialization, demonstrate the predictive validity of the construct, and show that it has a stronger explanatory power than process-level IT alignment with respect to organizational performance.
Recommended Citation
Queiroz, Magno, "A Process-Oriented Perspective on IT Cospecialization: Conceptualization and Empirical Examination" (2021). ICIS 2021 Proceedings. 13.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2021/governance/governance/13
A Process-Oriented Perspective on IT Cospecialization: Conceptualization and Empirical Examination
While prior research shows that an increase in IT support for business processes leads to high alignment and IT business value at the process-level, few studies have provided insights into the organizational-level benefits of cospecialization between IT and business processes. This paper extends prior treatments of the link between IT and business processes by developing a conceptualization and measure of business process IT cospecialization. Grounded in the cospecialization perspective in resource-based theory, this construct accounts for complementarities between IT and business processes and offers a new lens to explain how the benefits of IT at the process-level translate into improved organizational performance. Using data from a survey of IT executives and from secondary data sources, we validate an operational measure for business process IT cospecialization, demonstrate the predictive validity of the construct, and show that it has a stronger explanatory power than process-level IT alignment with respect to organizational performance.
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