Abstract Business and IT Alignment (BITA) has received a growing attention during the last
decades. Due to increasing environmental and organizational complexities, a co …

Significant investments in information systems (IS) over the past decades have led to
increasingly complex IS architectures in organisations, which are difficult to understand …

Business IT Alignment is considered an enduring topic in academic and practitioners'
literature. The interest in the subject is justified by the link, demonstrated by several studies …

This paper provides theoretical and practical implications for the application of agent-based
models (ABMs) to address the issue of coevolutionary business-IS alignment. The …

Many studies have investigated the effects of information technology (IT) in achieving
organizational performance. However, despite substantial IT investments, organizations …

Due to the turbulent external business environment, the complexity of internal relations of
the organization and the emergence of subversive IT roles, the business-IT alignment (BITA) …

Organizations constantly adapt their Information Systems (IS) architecture to reflect changes
in their environment. In general, such adaptations steadily increase the complexity of their IS …

Abstract Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are repositories of electronic medical histories
of patients, maintained over time. Hospital operations and EMRs typically become …

Abstract The Business and IT Co-evolution (BITC) is a growing concern for researchers and
practitioners alike. Extant literature on implementation and management of BITC is still in …

Co-evolutionary IS-alignment (COISA) is a relatively new approach to understanding
business-IT alignment (BITA) in complex environments. It is defined as continuously …