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In ever-increasing competitive market, the strategic use of information systems has been a main concern for researchers and practitioners for the last decade. In particular, the strategic alignment of information systems to business strategies plays a key role for the value of information systems strategies. Despite of many studies on the strategic alignment of information systems, the narrow perspective on alignments, the paucity of objective materials across firms for research, and a subjective method using survey method hinder the deeper understanding of the role of strategic alignment of information systems. In this study, we extend the concept of alignment to the alignment with other business functions such as finance, accounting, human resources, and marketing, as well as the alignment to business strategies.
Throughout CEOs’perspectives expressed in the letters to shareholders of annual reports in Healthcare industry, we find that CEOs have a stereotyped perception on the role of IS strategy as operational efficiency, the implicit alignment in information systems implementing multiple business strategies show a positive relationship with firm performance, and balanced strategy among business functions has a negative association with firm performance.
The empirical results shed light on the understanding of strategic alignment of information systems and the identifying the effective information systems strategies for firms’conditions.

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Abstract
 Introduction
 Literature Review
  Strategy, IS Strategy, and Alignment
  A IS Alignment Model
  Pure strategy and mixed strategy
  IS alignment with other business functions
  Healthcare Industry
  Sample Selection
 Methodology
  Strategy and IS Strategy
  Firm Performance Measure
  Control Variable
  CEO’s Perspective on Business Functions
  Analysis
  Strategy Content Alignment
  Pure Strategy and Mixed Strategy
 Discussion
  Theoretical Implications
  Methodological Implications
  Limitations and Future Research
 Conclusion
 References

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• Jaeki Song [ Rawls College of Business Administration Texas Tech University, Service Systems Management & Engineering, Sogang Business School Sogang University ]
• Sangno Lee [ Service Systems Management & Engineering, Sogang Business School Sogang University ]
• Seunghye Jin [ Sogang Business School, Sogang University ]
• Yongjin Kim [ Service Systems Management & Engineering, Sogang Business School Sogang University ]

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