CFOs in e-business: E-architects or foot-soldiers?

David O'Donnell; Nick Bontis; Philip O'Regan; Tom Kennedy; Peter Cleary; Ailish Hannigan

doi:10.1002/kpm.196

CFOs in e-business: E-architects or foot-soldiers?

David O'Donnell
, Nick Bontis
, Philip O'Regan
, Tom Kennedy
, Peter Cleary
, Ailish Hannigan

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Abstract

Both the role of the CFO (chief financial officer) and the discipline of accounting can be viewed as being in transition due to developments in the e-Business world. One perspective suggests that CFOs are becoming ‘e-process architects’—an alternative suggests that the CFO role is becoming commoditized to ‘foot-soldier’ status with other roles such as CIOs (chief information officers) and CTOs (chief technology officers) staking a claim to its traditional accounting space. In this paper we present some preliminary evidence relating to this e-architect/foot-soldier question, and on levels of e-Business activity, based on data obtained from over 120 CFOs in the Irish ICT sector.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	105-116
Number of pages	12
Journal	Knowledge and Process Management
Volume	11
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/kpm.196
Publication status	Published - 2004

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