The importance of IT governance has received increasing attention in the recent years. \r\nExtensive literature addresses top management and organisational issues of IT governance. \r\nHowever, recent findings suggest that people issues in IT governance equally deserve \r\nattention. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study examines the influence of \r\nIT practitioners and management guidance on the extent of their participation in IT \r\ngovernance initiatives. A quantitative study was conducted among IT practitioners in \r\nMalaysia. Data analysis using Partial Least Squares suggests that subjective norms and \r\nperceived behavioural controls on IT practitioners result in greater participation in IT \r\ngovernance initiatives. However, attitudes do not have significant relationship with \r\nparticipation in IT governance initiatives, in contrast with prediction of the theory. Further \r\nanalysis reveals that awareness and perceived importance of IT governance are the two \r\nmost important factors from the practitioner perspective. As for management guidance, \r\norganisational processes and reward system are the most important, closely followed by \r\norganisational structure. The findings reaffirm that IT governance requires control in the \r\nform of organisational structures, processes, goal settings and reward system to encourage \r\ndesirable behaviours in IT governance initiatives.
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