Strategic Alignment of Enterprise Systems and Business Strategies under Systems and Bivariate Approaches

Across holistic and bivariate approaches, we examine complex relationships amongst strategic alignment, strategic enterprise systems flexibility, and business performance. Our evidence is based on data collected from top management in North America. We observe a positive correlation between alignment and business performance. In addition, the relationship between enterprise systems strategic flexibility and performance have shown more significant results with a robust correlation when alignment act as a mediator. Our results indicate that while systems approach provides more significant results, bivariate approach allows deeper examination of constructs.