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Recent highly publicized success stories have focused general managers' attention on so called "competitive information systems." But organizations attempting to identify systems that provide competitive advantage are finding the search to be ...

"User involvement" in information system development is generally considered an important mechanism for improving system quality and ensuring successful system implementation. The common assumption that user involvement leads to system usage and/or ...

User involvement in the design of computer-based information systems is enthusiastically endorsed in the prescriptive literature. However determining when and how much, or even if, user involvement is appropriate are questions that have received ...

This paper critically reviews measures of user information satisfaction and selects one for replication and extension. A survey of production managers is used to provide additional support for the instrument, eliminate scales that are psychometrically ...

Journals constituting the formal communication system for Management Information System (MIS) research are described and analyzed. Six measures of journal importance in communicating MIS research are developed based upon MIS expert opinions, published ...

Proponents of computer graphics foresee them having a dramatic impact on decision maker productivity. The availability of inexpensive graphic computer technology permits organizations to rely extensively on graphics for standard information ...

Knowledge utilization among MIS researchers is examined via an analysis of 9,911 references appearing in 532 MIS journal articles published in fifteen journals during the 1970-1979 period. Quantitative indicators of references per article, type of ...

Computer chargeback systems are installed to meet various data processing objectives. One objective is to increase user involvement in decisions regarding information systems development and use. Presumably, increasing user involvement will result in ...

The role of the information systems manager has evolved in twenty years from that of a technician managing a relatively unimportant service function into that of a vice presidential-level, general manager whose department can substantially impact the ...