Jemaneh, GetachewAyalew, Yohannes2018-11-142023-11-182018-11-142023-11-182018-06-03http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/14211Today in many organizations in the public sector, the use of IT has become crucial in sustaining and extending the organizations’ strategies and objectives. Such use of technology has caused a critical dependency on IT thus a call for specific focus on IT governanceThe aim of this study was to investigate maturity of IT Governance in Ethiopian agricultural business corporation. Mainly survey methodology was employed to investigate the perceived importance and maturity of IT Governance practices in Ethiopian agricultural business corporation in terms of IT Governance structure, processes and relational mechanism. The geographical coverage of this research was limited to Addis Ababa where the head office EABC is located. The data was gathered from IT and business managers and from senior business and IT expertise at the head offices and branch offices in Addis Ababa. A combination of stratified, simple random and purposive sampling was used to select sample respondents. Stratified used to subgroup business managers and IT expertise, Purposive sampling specifically expert sampling was used to select senior and higher IT experts while simple random was used to select sample from business managers to participate in the study. This research primarily used closed-ended self-administered questionnaire to collect data from IT/ Business managers and Senior business experts and IT professionalsRegarding data analysis, the quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS and MS-Excel and the qualitative data was presented based on predefined themes. Finally, the survey result was complemented and triangulated with interview result and document analysis to answer the research questions. Importance of IT Governance in Ethiopian agricultural business corporation was rated 4.4 based on a scale from 0(strongly disagree) to 5(strongly agree). This shows that there is a strong consensus on the Importance of IT Governance practices but the actual IT Governance maturity on average was rated 0.7 (between level 0 and 1) based on generic maturity scale from 0(non-existence) to 5(optimized) i.e. some IT Governance issues were not applied at all and some were recognized and implemented in an informal and ad hoc basis with little or no evidence of standardization. Among IT Governance mechanisms, relatively IT Governance relational mechanisms was rated as more important as well as mature than that of IT Governance structure and Governance processBased on the result it can be concluded that IT governance maturity in Ethiopian Agricultural business corporation is between non-existent and initial stage. So, to reach desired level of IT Governance maturity and to get the best out of IT investment, recommendations are forwarded to start implementing formal IT Governance which fits to their business strategy using the existing frameworksenEthiopian Agricultural BusinessThesis