The Role of Culture in IT Governance

It is important to have an understanding of culture in different level when implementing IT governance. IT governance aims to define decision rights and responsibilities to reach desirable behaviors that direct the organizations for value delivery from IT investments. There is a lack of knowledge on how cultural issues can play a role in IT governance. This paper sets out to provide a review on the literature focusing on role of culture in IT governance. Using a concept centric approach, this paper categorizes the findings from literature through the lens of IT governance five focus areas which are IT resource management, strategic alignment,, value delivery, performance measurement and risk management. This paper contribute to the field by providing evidence on how important the role of culture is in IT governance based on the previous literature and reveals the gaps and potential future research in the area.