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Benbya, Hind and McKelvey, Bill (2006): Using coevolutionary and complexity theories to improve IS alignment: A multi-level approach. In Jounal of Information Technology, 21 (4) p. 284–298

“he misalignment of information systems (IS) components with the rest of an organization remains a critical and chronic unsolved problem in today's complex and turbulent world. This paper argues that the coevolutionary and emergent nature of alignment has rarely been taken into consideration in IS research and that this is the reason behind why IS alignment is so difficult. A view of IS alignment is presented about organizations that draws and builds on complexity theory and especially its focus on coevolution-based self-organized emergent behaviour and structure, which provides important insights for dealing with the emergent nature of IS alignment. This view considers Business/IS alignment as a series of adjustments at three levels of analysis: individual, operational, and strategic, and suggests several enabling conditions – principles of adaptation and scale-free dynamics – aimed at speeding up the adaptive coevolutionary dynamics among the three levels.”

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Benbya, Hind and McKelvey, Bill (2006): Toward a Complexity theory of Information Systems Development. In Information Technology and People, 19 (1) pp. 12-34

“Existing literature acknowledges information systems development (ISD) to be a complex activity. This complexity is magniﬁed by the continuous changes in user requirements due to changing organizational needs in changing external competitive environments. Research ﬁndings show that, if this increasing complexity is not managed appropriately, information systems fail. The paper thus aims to portray the sources of complexity related to ISD and to suggest the use of complexity theory as a frame of reference, analyzing its implications on information system design and development to deal with the emergent nature of IS. ”

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