TY - JOUR
T1 - Post-merger IT integration strategies
T2 - An IT alignment perspective
AU - Wijnhoven, Fons
AU - Spil, Ton
AU - Stegwee, Robert
AU - Fa, Rachel Tjang A
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - When a company decides to merge with or to acquire another company, a major question is to what extent to integrate the information technologies and the organization. Interpreting merger objectives to proper IT integration strategies is a complex and time-consuming process, due to a lack of explicit understanding of the problems involved. The current literature in this field is meager and has not yet resulted in a theory. For this purpose, we developed a variant of the IT alignment model. In this model, we identify three ambition levels of mergers and IT integration from the literature. Additionally, we describe four integration methods that fit with these ambitions. The relations between these objectives and methods are moderated by contextual factors. Three hospital cases, with different merger and IT integration ambitions, describe the practice of this model. The case studies also add several new variables and relations to it. This result facilitates further research in post-merger IT integration by delivering an empirical research model.
AB - When a company decides to merge with or to acquire another company, a major question is to what extent to integrate the information technologies and the organization. Interpreting merger objectives to proper IT integration strategies is a complex and time-consuming process, due to a lack of explicit understanding of the problems involved. The current literature in this field is meager and has not yet resulted in a theory. For this purpose, we developed a variant of the IT alignment model. In this model, we identify three ambition levels of mergers and IT integration from the literature. Additionally, we describe four integration methods that fit with these ambitions. The relations between these objectives and methods are moderated by contextual factors. Three hospital cases, with different merger and IT integration ambitions, describe the practice of this model. The case studies also add several new variables and relations to it. This result facilitates further research in post-merger IT integration by delivering an empirical research model.
KW - IT integration strategies
KW - Information management
KW - Mergers
KW - IT alignment
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jsis.2005.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jsis.2005.07.002
M3 - Article
SN - 0963-8687
VL - 15
SP - 5
EP - 28
JO - The Journal of strategic information systems
JF - The Journal of strategic information systems
IS - 1
ER -