TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Huber, Melanie
A1  - Zimmermann, Stephan
A1  - Rentrop, Christopher
A1  - Felden, Carsten
T1  - Conceptualizing Shadow IT Integration Drawbacks from a Systemic Viewpoint
JF  - Systems : open access journal - Special Issue "Systems Thinking" Paper 42
N2  - Business units are increasingly able to fuel the transformation that digitalization demands of organizations. Thereby, they can implement Shadow IT (SIT) without involving a central IT department to create flexible and innovative solutions. Self-reinforcing effects lead to an intertwinement of SIT with the organization. As a result, high complexities, redundancies, and sometimes even lock-ins occur. IT Integration suggests itself to meet these challenges. However, it can also eliminate the benefits that SIT presents. To help organizations in this area of conflict, we are conducting a literature review including a systematic search and an analysis from a systemic viewpoint using path dependency and switching costs. Our resulting conceptual framework for SIT integration drawbacks classifies the drawbacks into three dimensions. The first dimension consists of switching costs that account for the financial, procedural, and emotional drawbacks and the drawbacks from a loss of SIT benefits. The second dimension includes organizational, technical, and level-spanning criteria. The third dimension classifies the drawbacks into the global level, the local level, and the interaction between them. We contribute to the scientific discussion by introducing a systemic viewpoint to the research on shadow IT. Practitioners can use the presented criteria to collect evidence to reach an IT integration decision.
KW  - Shadow IT
KW  - IT Integration
KW  - IT Integration Drawbacks
KW  - Application Integration
KW  - Path Dependency
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/6/4/42/pdf
SN  - 2079-8954
SS  - 2079-8954
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/systems6040042
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/systems6040042
VL  - 6
IS  - 4
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
ER  -