IT Alignment: Stakeholder Dynamics Perspective

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Author(s): Taghred Alghaith (Lancaster University, UK)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 26
Source title: Handbook of Research on Innovations in Information Retrieval, Analysis, and Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jorge Tiago Martins (The University of Sheffield, UK)and Andreea Molnar (University of Portsmouth, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8833-9.ch009

Keywords: Information Resources Management / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science

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This chapter seeks a deeper understanding of stakeholder dynamics as a critical social component influencing IT strategy alignment. Perez-Batres et al. (2012) recognized the paucity of research on alignment dynamics, mainly stakeholder dynamics. Stakeholder theory, primarily Mitchell et al. (1997) identification model, is used to determine stakeholders' saliency throughout an ICT strategic project in a Saudi public hospital. However, stakeholder theory is static and does not help in tracing how saliency is gained and lost through time, and hence interpreting the influence on the alignment process. Therefore, this research utilizes the appreciative systems concepts of Geoffrey Vickers as dynamizing instrument to understand saliency dynamics and their influence. Results show that stakeholder dynamics resides in the nature of the relationship they pursue with each other.

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