The Review of Board with its Expertise in Corporate Governance

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide a review of literature on board members with IT expertise and corporate governance. Information technology (IT) plays an increasingly crucial and essential role in business world nowadays. Prior research suggests that IT governance as part of corporate governance helps stakeholders to monitor and locate bad management behaviour, and board members with IT expertise is as one of important IT governance mechanisms. Thus, this study takes these arguments a step further by reviewing the relationship between board members with IT expertise and the quality of corporate governance. This study collects, analyses and concludes published articles in EBSCOhost, SpringerLink, Taylor & Francis and ScienceDirect. The result demonstrates that boards with IT expertise are more likely to encourage the use of IT across the firms and improve the quality of corporate governance, thereby decreasing internal control deficiencies and cyber security risks and improving the information environment that are revealed through numerous outputs of the firms.