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JGITM 2009 12.2 Article 2
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Strategic Alignment and Its Antecedents: A Critical Analysis of Constructs and Relations in the International and Brazilian Literature
Valter de Assis Moreno, Jr., Flavia de Souza Costa Neves Cavazotte, and Daniel de Oliveira Valente
In this study, we conduct a review of the international and the Brazilian literature on
business-IT strategic alignment and present a critical analysis of fundamental problems
observed in the field. We argue that conceptual shortcomings, such as the lack of
clarity in constitutive definitions of the alignment construct and the plethora of often
overlapping antecedents discussed in the literature, restrain systematic knowledge
development in the field. We propose a conceptual definition of business-IT strategic
alignment, striving for clarity and parsimony, and highlight its distinction from the
definition of operational alignment. The antecedents in the literature are further
analyzed so as to formulate a synthetic conceptual model for the nomological network
that links these constructs. We conclude the article stressing that additional
theoretical and empirical endeavors regarding business-IT alignment are needed,
emphasizing that such efforts should be conducted with greater attention to the issues
discussed in this review.
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