Unexplored Linkages between Corporate Governance and IT Governance

This chapter discusses the overall importance of both corporate and IT governance, and demonstrates that IT governance is a very important subcomponent of corporate governance. The authors present a framework, based upon a framework previously presented by Weill and Ross (2004), which should facilitate a strong understanding of the different factors and mechanisms that impact firm governance. A number of interesting empirical results relating to these governance mechanisms are presented within the context of the framework. Finally, the chapter presents a number of examples that link corporate and IT governance. In presenting those linkages, the authors identify a number of areas that should provide fruitful avenues for researchers to explore IT governance as it relates to corporate governance, and vice versa.