James Denford, Gregory Dawson, and I have a paper accepted for presentation at the Forty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
An Argument for Centralization of IT Governance in the Public Sector
Using a configurational crisp set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA) approach, we find that effective public sector IT governance is structured differently than in the private sector. While states adopt a variety of IT governance structures, it is unmistakable that centralized yields better organizational outcomes than decentralized. As such, this paper makes a case for additional research in public sector governance in order to understand and explain these differences.
Jim Denford will present the paper at the conference. Click here for the conference program.
We have written several practitioner notes based on this paper, seeĀ InformationWeek and Brookings Tech Tank.