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Information Technology Leadership in Swedish Leading Multinational Corporations

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Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective (WSKS 2009)

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This paper presents a comparative study of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) role, responsibilities, profile and the IT impact in five leading multinational corporations (MNCs) in Sweden. The first part of the paper comprehends a research review regarding the CIO role, responsibilities and barriers that the CIO is facing today in MNCs with references to the European business environment. After that in the second part of the paper a comparative analysis is provided regarding the CIO role, responsibilities and CIO profile using the Sojer et al. model [25] in the Swedish leading MNCs. Moreover the paper is providing in this part an analysis upon if the CIO is adding value by using Earl and Fenny profile [7]. In the last part of the paper an analysis is done concerning the IT impact in the Swedish MNCs by using McFarlan strategic grid framework [20] together with IT strategies used by the CIOs to support the business operations and strategies. The results of this analysis provide a detail overview that can be usefully for Swedish IT executives or top managers about the development of the CIO role, responsibilities and profile.

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  1. Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lazar Rusu, Mohamed El Mekawy & Georg Hodosi

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  1. Open Research Society, NGO, and American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Dipartemento Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  3. College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

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  4. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  5. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

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  6. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

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  7. Creatifica Associates, Chelveston, Wellingborough, UK

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  8. University of Tampere, Finland

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  9. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Private Bag 92006, 1020, Auckland, New Zealand

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  10. School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

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  11. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

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Rusu, L., El Mekawy, M., Hodosi, G. (2009). Information Technology Leadership in Swedish Leading Multinational Corporations. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective. WSKS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5736. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_52

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