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Information Technology Governance and Strategy

Information Technology Governance and Strategy is a research topic within Management Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1957. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the factors influencing the alignment between information technology and business strategies, as well as the governance mechanisms for IT. It explores topics such as enterprise architecture, strategic information systems planning, CIO roles, IT governance maturity, and the impact of IT alignment on organizational performance.

  • IT Alignment
  • Business Strategy
  • Information Technology Governance
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Strategic Information Systems Planning
  • IT Governance
  • Organizational Performance
  • CIO Role
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Competitive Advantage
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Information Technology Governance and Strategy

Which countries lead Information Technology Governance and Strategy research?

By volume, Indonesia and the United States publish the most (628 and 298 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 628 works
  2. 2 United States 298 works
  3. 3 Germany 150 works
  4. 4 China 88 works
  5. 5 Brazil 87 works
  6. 6 India 81 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 72 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 56 works
  9. 9 South Africa 55 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 50 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 40.2%United States: 19.0%Germany: 9.6%China: 5.6%6 others listed: 25.6%40%largest
Indonesia628 · 40.2%United States298 · 19.0%Germany150 · 9.6%China88 · 5.6%6 others listed401 · 25.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Information Technology Governance and Strategy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Telkom University publishes the most Information Technology Governance and Strategy research, followed by University of Indonesia and Binus University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 40 works
  2. 2 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 38 works
  3. 3 Binus UniversityIndonesia 33 works
  4. 4 Film IndependentUnited States 31 works
  5. 5 Multimedia Nusantara UniversityIndonesia 19 works
  6. 6 Satya Wacana Christian UniversityIndonesia 16 works
  7. 7 FlevoziekenhuisNetherlands 14 works
  8. 8 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 14 works
  9. 9 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 13 works
  10. 10 Stockholm UniversitySweden 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Information Technology Governance and Strategy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Information Technology Governance and Strategy include Aziz Sheikh, Herbert A. Simon and Syed Mohamed Aljunid.

  1. 1 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k citations
  2. 2 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  3. 3 Syed Mohamed Aljunid Malaysia 147k citations
  4. 4 Wolfgang Köenig Germany 134k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Information Technology Governance and Strategy?

The most cited paper in Information Technology Governance and Strategy is "Strategic management a stakeholder approach" (R. Edward Freeman, 2010), with 23,365 citations. Next come "Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable" (10,692) and "How to Write Up and Report PLS Analyses" (5,010).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Strategic management a stakeholder approach R. Edward Freeman 2010 23,365
2 Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable William H. DeLone, Ephraim R. McLean · Information Systems Research Mar 1992 10,692
3 How to Write Up and Report PLS Analyses Wynne W. Chin Book chapter 16 Nov 2009 5,010
4 Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization. M. Craig Brown, Herbert A. Simon · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews Sep 1978 4,861
5 Digital Business Strategy: Toward a Next Generation of Insights Anandhi S. Bharadwaj, Omar A. El Sawy, Paul A. Pavlou et al. · MIS Quarterly Open access Jun 2013 4,264
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Information Technology Governance and Strategy research done?

The largest centres of Information Technology Governance and Strategy research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Tangerang (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tangerang, Depok and Pretoria.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 117 works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 86 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 48 works
  4. 4 TangerangIndonesia 44 works
  5. 5 DepokIndonesia 40 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 34 works
  7. 7 LisbonPortugal 24 works
  8. 8 PretoriaSouth Africa 22 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 22 works
  10. 10 MedanIndonesia 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TangerangID · 44.3 works16×
  2. DepokID · 40.1 works10.0×
  3. PretoriaZA · 22.1 works7.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Information Technology Governance and Strategy than the world average.

See Information Technology Governance and Strategy on the map

Where is the best place to study Information Technology Governance and Strategy?

Among universities, judged by research, Nasional University, University of Johannesburg and University of Indonesia score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 11.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nasional UniversityStockholm UniversityUniversity of Johann…University of Indone…
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Nasional UniversityIndonesia 55.435.3%23.9×9 -
2University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 49.817.2%8.5×12 +48.8%
3University of IndonesiaIndonesia 48.97.1%14.7×38 -11.6%
4Stockholm UniversitySweden 48.323.9%17.2×13 -30.0%
5Telkom UniversityIndonesia 42.93.1%34.9×40 -51.7%
6University of South AfricaSouth Africa 41.714.7%11.0×10 +36.4%
7Binus UniversityIndonesia 40.52.6%27.1×33 -17.6%
8Multimedia Nusantara UniversityIndonesia 38.42.7%119.0×19 +1780.6%
9Universitas Pramita IndonesiaIndonesia 35.87.9%89.5×12 +341.5%
10Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 32.64.0%9.2×13 +16.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Information Technology Governance and Strategy, country by country

Is Information Technology Governance and Strategy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Information Technology Governance and Strategy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0099% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Information Technology Governance and Strategy0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Information Technology Governance and Strategy over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Information Technology Governance and Strategy10.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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