IT governance mechanisms: A literature review

Abstract

Nowadays information technology (IT) is present in all organizations. This pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT Governance (ITG). Organizations with effective governance have actively adopted a set of ITG mechanisms. However, ITG mechanisms are not well defined among the literature and in some cases there are incongruities in their definition. In this paper we intend to perform a literature review (LR) in order to elicit which are the main ITG mechanisms as well as to describe them and state what they are useful for. We finish our work with conclusion, contributions, limitations and future work. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.