bigger pool of cases is needed in stay clear and satisfieing for 100 various groups; variables in questionaries should be more specific, and categorized for each relative sub-groups; this combination would be last longer in transparency for strategies. 

Thank you Faranack,

Obviously more cases and investigations are needed to understand inter-organizational IT governance with possible variations to single organization and hierarchical IT governance. I have data about other cases as well and may include them as the empiria in a future article. As a whole, at the moment there appears to be less than two dozens of papers on inter-organizational IT governance within IS research. However, there are lots of studies on the various forms of governance in other fields of research.   

The case, which has been asked to be extended to a journal article is just that - a case. The survey questions I used were not invented for the article or research but were crafted  by the participants. who built and now implement the governance model, to describe the benefits of the arrangement and the principles of the governance model. Their wording is different to the theoretical constructs found in research literature and alto to practice oriented documents such as the  ISO/IEC 38500 standards family with its 6 principles  

Dear professor Tomi, this is a bomb research. Truly liked it. Read paper briefly, and comments are

- recently spoke with friend about TAM and he proposed me to check this paper (as in his PhD they found problems with TAM) - here is paper (did not study it deeply - but can see that you could maybe use it for future research) http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/~ccchiang/GILIS/LIS/p9-Delone.pdf

-maybe you could add in theoretical overview theories which deal with "organic" IS development - great paper (for me was mind opening) is http://www.itu.dk/iris29/IRIS29/11-4.pdf 

Once again - this is so important area of research (in my beliefs) and currently i studying a lot phenomena of how IS will not be centrally owned but they will adopt according to the use - and not be owned by central agent - but emerge according to the use of such a system. With your research you are directly in this area. 

We could see that we become depend of the big systems (your point in health systems is great example) - but those systems are not optimal and they do not adopt according to use. In your approach - i would put the question why we need central governance ? can we approach it from crowd sourcing/folskonomy paradigm ? From socio cognitive paradigm in Information science ? 

Hope my thoughts are not futuristic and comments do not offend you. I am really happy that I found your research as its contribute in what I am research at the moment.

Best

Sergej