Enterprise governance of IT and the evolutions in COBIT: An academic perspective

Abstract

Recently a new version of COBIT, the good-practice framework for enterprise governance of IT, was released. Although is it not always clearly articulated in its documentation, this new COBIT 5 framework incorporates many concepts and theories out of the IT and general management literature. This paper wants to position COBIT as a framework for enterprise governance of IT, and illustrates how the core principles and building blocks of the framework are derived from insights from literature. Based on this discussion, research questions for future research around enterprise governance of IT and COBIT 5 are proposed and discussed. As such, this paper wants to contribute to the exploration on how a practice-oriented framework such as COBIT could be used in future research activities. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.