The results in Table 6 show that the level of owners/managers’ participation in information system implementation is relatively high in both alignment groups. However, the results of an independent-samples ttest show very little support for the association between AIS alignment and owner/manager participation. The
two alignment groups only differ significantly on one of five stages, which is the ‘solving problems’ stage. While the results do not support findings from previous studies (Thong & Yap 1995; Thong et al. 1996), the
relatively high participation level of owners/managers in both groups suggests IT maturity among the firms.