Improving Agility Through Enterprise Architecture Management: The Mediating Role of Aligning Business and IT

M. (Maurice) Pattij; R. van de Wetering; R.J. Kusters

Improving Agility Through Enterprise Architecture Management: The Mediating Role of Aligning Business and IT

M. (Maurice) Pattij^*, R. van de Wetering, R.J. Kusters

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Abstract

The economic environment of contemporary organizations is becoming increasingly dynamic. Organizational agility fosters sustainable competitive advantage under these turbulent conditions. Prior research demonstrated that strategic IT alignment could enhance organizational agility. Many organizations implemented an enterprise architecture management (EAM) function to achieve benefits such as strategic IT alignment and agility. However, there is little research that explains the pathways between these focal concepts. Hence, we ground our work in the dynamic capabilities view and develop a conceptual model to explain how EAM investments lead to agility mediated by strategic IT alignment. We conducted survey research and collected a sample of 110 respondents. Based on this dataset, we performed a PLS-SEM and cluster analysis to test our model and associated hypotheses. Our results indicate that EAM enhances organizational agility. Strategic IT alignment mediates this effect. Lastly, our results showcase the complementary effect of conducting a PLS-SEM and cluster analysis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AMCIS 2020 Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	the 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems
Publisher	Association for Information Systems
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781733632546
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7336325-4-6
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	26th Americas Conference on Information Systems - Online, Association for Information Systems (AIS), Atlanta, United States Duration: 10 Aug 2020 → 14 Aug 2020 Conference number: 26 https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/

Conference

Conference	26th Americas Conference on Information Systems
Abbreviated title	AMCIS 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta
Period	10/08/20 → 14/08/20
Internet address	https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/

Keywords

Cluster Analysis
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture Management
Organizational Agility
PLS-SEM
Strategic IT Alignment

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Pattij, M, van de Wetering, R & Kusters, RJ 2020, Improving Agility Through Enterprise Architecture Management: The Mediating Role of Aligning Business and IT. in AMCIS 2020 Proceedings: the 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems., 3, Association for Information Systems, 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 10/08/20. <https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1368&context=amcis2020>

Improving Agility Through Enterprise Architecture Management: The Mediating Role of Aligning Business and IT. / Pattij, M. (Maurice); van de Wetering, R.; Kusters, R.J.
AMCIS 2020 Proceedings: the 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems. Association for Information Systems, 2020. 3.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Article in proceeding › Academic › peer-review

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