School of Business Faculty Have Paper Accepted for International Conference on Information Systems

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - 09:45

School of Business lecturers Dr Niall Connolly, Dr Giovanni Maccani, and Professor Brian Donnellan recently had a paper accepted for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), which will take place in Seoul, South Korea, this coming December.
 
The paper is entitled ‘IT Governance in Smart Cities: a Conceptual Framework’ and will be presented during the ‘Transforming Society with Digital Innovation’ theme track.
 
Paper Abstract
 
This paper describes the development of a conceptual framework for investigating IT governance in Smart Cities. This is proposed as an initial contribution to the following research question formulated for this study: How do IT governance mechanisms sustain and extend the organization’s strategy and objectives in smart cities? Smart cities are defined in this study as a collection of IT-dependent strategic initiatives of the city authority with the ultimate goal of achieving public value. This study aims to address the lack of research in smart city governance, and the broader paucity of IS research on IT governance in the public sector. To this end the relationship between IT governance and performance in organizations is reviewed and transposed onto a smart city context. These reflections led to the formulation of an initial Smart City IT Governance Framework which is being currently leveraged for empirically investigating this phenomenon.  
 
Dr Connolly is a Lecturer within the School of Business and the Innovation Value Institute.
 
Dr Macanni is currently lecturing in IT Governance, Performance and RiskDigital Business Leadership, and Managing IT for Business and undergraduate and postgraduate level within the School of Business.
 
Professor Donnellan is Professor of Information Systems Innovation at the School of Business, Academic Director of the Innovation Value Institute, and Vice President and Dean of International Affairs for the University.