Title:
An
Integrative Model Linking IT-Business Strategic Alignment and Firm
Performance:
The Mediating Role of Pursuing Innovation and Knowledge Management
Strategies
Abstract: While researchers
have encouraged more
research on the causal chains between IT investments and firm
performance,
results of empirical studies have been non-conclusive. This is partly
due
to the exclusion of IT-business strategic alignment. Further, scholars
have
continuously called for research that addresses the antecedent factors
that
lead to the alignment. Moreover, the elusive link between strategic
alignment
and firm performance calls for further research into intermediate
variables
which might in turn affect firm performance. Therefore, the purpose of
this
paper is to provide a detailed roadmap in which practitioners can use
to
understand the resources required to realize the potential values of
their
IT investments. This could be achieved by presenting further insight to
the
factors that could lead to strategic alignment; and investigating the
relationships
among strategic alignment antecedents, strategic alignment and firm
performance
through vital intermediary variables namely innovation and knowledge
management
(KM) strategies.
Authors: Ra’ed (Moh’d Taisir)
Masa’deh , Ziad Hunaiti and
Ahmad Ali Bani Yaseen