To understand or to be understood? A dyadic analysis of perceptual congruence and interdependence between CEOs and CIOs.

Despite the importance of a healthy relationship between CEOs and CIOs in organizations for effective business-IT alignment, there is still little understanding about how different facets of perceptual congruence compare between CEOs and CIOs and how perceptual interdependencies affect the quality of collaboration in these relationships. Drawing on social and personal relationship theories, our study examines 102 matched-pair survey responses of...