TY  - JOUR
AB  - Seeks to isolate those intra‐organizational factors affecting the
information technology (IT) structure of the firm. Analyses this
phenomenon from two management perspectives: the agency and governance
perspective on the one hand, and the management characteristics
perspective on the other. Using a sample of 72 large organizations,
empirical results indicate that information technology structure
(centralized versus decentralized) is strongly related to management
equity ownership, to concentration of stock holding and to the age of
the CEO. For example, an organization where top executives and managers
own a relatively high percentage of the company′s stock, possesses a
more centralized information technology structure than an organization
with a relatively lower percentage of management ownership. This means
that user departments in the latter have more control over their IT
functions than users in the former. On the other hand, companies with a
high level of stock concentration have a more decentralized IT
structure. The research also revealed a statistically significant
relationship between a company′s equity‐to‐debt ratio and the age of the
CEO on the one hand, and the level of IT centralization on the other.
VL  - 2
IS  - 5
SN  - 0968-5227
DO  - 10.1108/09685229410072591
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/09685229410072591
AU  - Karake Zeinab A.
PY  - 1994
Y1  - 1994/01/01
TI  - A Study of Information Technology Structure: Firm Ownership and Managerial
Characteristics
T2  - Information Management & Computer Security
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 21
EP  - 30
Y2  - 2024/09/21
ER  -