THE FACTORS AFFECTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES RISK MANAGEMENT AT TURKEY’S STATE UNIVERSITIES

The aim of this study is to identify factors affecting IT risk management in universities, to explore patterns among these factors and to reveal an IT risk management model. The research universe consists of 548 IT employees in Turkey’s state universities’ IT centers. The factors effecting IT risk management success were determined based upon related literature, expert views and a theoretical model has been proposed to successful IT risk management. A quantitative research model was used and an instrument named IT Risk Management Scale (ITRM-S) was developed and used for data collection. The data analyses of this study were done by using SPSS and LISREL programs. It is found that IT risk management process was affected by human factor, institutional, environmental and technological factors and the model for successful IT risk management have been verified. Results show that institutional, environmental and technological factors directly affect the success of IT risk management. Furthermore, it is seen that human factor affects IT risk management success through environmental factors. Results were compared with literature results and recommendations are presented to researchers and practitioners