Assessing the Relationship between ITIL Implementation Progress and Firm Size: Evidence from Malaysia

Abstract

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a service management framework that is considered as a set of best practices that assist organizations to increase IT service management effectiveness, service delivery and IT governance. ITIL enables technology departments to demonstrate strong IT service management via systematic execution of operations with stringent controls. A questionnaire survey method was utilized to explore the relationship between ITIL implementation progress and firm size, amongst 84 Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) status firms in Malaysia. The study revealed that ITIL is widely adopted in MSC status firms. ITIL implementation progress was found to be positively associated with firm size, in terms of turnover, total number of employees and total number of IT staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Journal of Business & Management is the property of Canadian Center of Science & Education and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)