The Influence of Organizational Politics on Business IT Alignment
Business IT alignment continues to remain a top management concern. Regardless of ample research, achieving and sustaining business IT alignment remains challenging to organization's management. To this day, the influence of organizational politics remains unstudied in the light of business IT alignment. By performing a case study in a large organization in Sweden, the authors present and discuss how organizational politics influences business IT alignment from the viewpoint of practitioners. They find that organizational politics has a negative influence on communications, partnering, IT governance, IT scope, and business and IT skills of the Strategic Alignment Maturity model. Furthermore, the authors identified several root causes for organizational politics in the business IT alignment context, not addressed by the commonly used business IT alignment constructs. The findings of this research study are useful to business and IT practitioners for achieving and sustaining business IT alignment in their organizations considering the influence of organizational politics.
Int. J. IT Bus. Alignment Gov.