Business and Information Technology Alignment Measurement -- a recent Literature Review

Since technology has been involved in the business context, Business and Information Technology Alignment (BITA) has been one of the main concerns of IT and Business executives and directors due to its importance to overall company performance, especially today in the age of digital transformation. Several models and frameworks have been developed for BITA implementation and for measuring their level of success, each one with a different approach to this desired state. The BITA measurement is one of the main decision-making tools in the strategic domain of companies. In general, the classical-internal alignment is the most measured domain and the external environment evolution alignment is the least measured. This literature review aims to characterize and analyze current research on BITA measurement with a comprehensive view of the works published over the last 15 years to identify potential gaps and future areas of research in the field.Comment: 12 pages, Preprint version, BIS 2018 International Workshops, Berlin, Germany, July 18 to 20, 2018, Revised Paper

Technocracy, Corporatism, and the Development of ‘Economic Parliaments’ in Interwar Europe

In Interwar Europe corporatism was mainly used to refer to the comprehensive organization of political society seeking to replace liberal democracy with an anti-individualist system of representation. In fact, in many cases corporatist, or ‘economic parliaments’, either co-existed with and assisted parliaments or replaced them with a new type of legislature with consultative functions, which provided the government with technical assistance. The most influential theorist of Quadragesimo Anno, the Jesuit Heirich Pesch, did mention the ‘economic parliament’ as a ‘central clearing house’ of his organic view. In 1937 Karl Loewenstein saw ‘this romantic concept of organic representation’, in new legislatures trying to be a ‘true mirror of the social forces of the nation and a genuine replica of its economic structure’. However, the role of corporatist bodies in dictatorships was certainly much less romantic. The chapter explores the processes of corporatist institutional reform, both under democracy and dictatorship, in interwar Europe and its ideological legitimation.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Fascism, corporatism and the crafting of authoritarian institutions in inter-war European dictatorships

The diffusion of political and social corporatism, which with the single-party are hallmarks of the institutional transfers among European dictatorships, challenges some rigid dichotomous interpretations of interwar fascism. This chapter rethinks the role of corporatism as a political device against liberal democracy and especially as a set of authoritarian institutions that spread across inter-war Europe and which was an agent for the hybridization of the institutions of fascist-era dictatorships. We argue that corporatism was at the forefront of this process of cross-national diffusion, both as a new form of organized interest representation and as an authoritarian alternative to liberal democracy