Future Works

This thesis is an exploratory study of business and IS strategic alignment using the co-citation method. The limitation of this paper is that the first two factors account too much variance of factor analysis. If other factors account more, we could separate the papers as many groups with no coverage and the trends would be clearer.

Future work will include:

1. Expand the area of topic, like business strategy, IS strategy and strategic alignment in order to collect more papers. The larger the pool of core papers, the reliable the results will be.

2. For the minority trend, we could search for papers on topics related to our topic. Many related papers are published in other journals or are published in other area. For instance, papers related to ERP systems often cite alignment related papers. Therefore, the

minority trend in this study, “Evidence in Strategic Planning”, may become a majority trend by including ERP related papers.

3. To analyze the data using another method. We always use three statistical methods in the co-citation study. Factor analysis, multidimensional scaling analysis and clustering analysis are the three most popular methods. We could use other method to verify our data and compare the results with those of the above three traditional methods. For example, social network analysis maybe a good method to analyze the data.

4. Because the co-citation relationship between two papers is dynamic, we could develop a dynamic co-citation analysis system to produce a dynamic result. A dynamic trend and dissemination can be reported in this dynamic system.

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