A study of subsidiaries’ views of information systems strategic planning in multinational organisations
| Autor: | John M. Ward, Mohdzaher B. Mohdzain |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
Centralisation
Strategic planning Information Systems and Management Information systems strategic planning Strategic alignment business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Subsidiary Multinational subsidiaries Management Information Systems Multinational corporation Service (economics) Multinational companies Information technology management Information system Marketing business Information Systems media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. 16:324-352 |
| ISSN: | 0963-8687 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jsis.2007.02.003 |
| Popis: | This research examines information systems strategic planning (ISSP) in multinationals from the perspective of the subsidiaries. The research was carried out through interviews with the IT and business managers in subsidiaries of nine large American, European, and Japanese multinationals. The evidence from this study reveals that, in the majority of these organisations, IS planning is either centralised or moving towards centralisation. The main focus of IS planning, in many of these organisations, is to control cost and achieve scale economies. As centralisation increases IT tends to control the planning process and, as a result, IS planning becomes more tactical than strategic and is dominated by IT infrastructure planning. Project implementation was the main criterion used to measure IS planning success. However, due to the dominant role of IT, the subsidiary business managers are often less satisfied with the IS planning approach compared with the subsidiary IT managers. The level of involvement of business managers and their satisfaction with ISSP was related to the degree of decentralisation of responsibility for IS planning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full Text from ScienceDirect