There is widespread acceptance that information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) have evolved from a traditional administrative, back-office support orientation towards a more strategic, central role within organizations. In this paper, N. Venkatraman, John Henderson and Scott Oldach...

The control relationship between project managers and team members is a central aspect of the working of any Information System (I/S) design team. This paper combines research on managerial control and team-member control in order to explore a range of control behaviors that can affect the...

Cognitive styles measured by the Myers-Briggs indicator were studied to isolate how style influences decision behavior. An experiment was conducted in which experienced decision makers from hospitals and firms were asked to assess several capital expansion projects. To control for environmental...

This paper investigates two alternative strategies for implementing Decision Support Systems (DSS): evolutionary and traditional. The evolutionary approach utilizes judgement modeling (boot strapping) as a means to create felt need, to provide insight into the decision process and the implied...

For some time now, the business press has been sounding the death knell of strategic planning. Introduced in the mid‐Fifties, formal and comprehensive approaches to strategic planning have gone through a number of evolutionary changes. Beginning with simple, internally oriented annual budgets,...

Information technology and information systems already rate acronyms that are quite portentous— IT and IS. Both are creating remarkable opportunities for some companies, and awesome risks for others. Strategic planners are struggling to anticipate how these new technologies can be linked to...

This paper reports the results of a research study aimed at conceptualizing and developing valid measurements of key dimensions of a strategy construct---termed Strategic Orientation of Business Enterprises. This construct is first defined by addressing four theoretical questions of scope;...

Research on strategic planning has been handicapped by lack of an appropriate operationalizing scheme for measuring the success of planning systems. In this paper, an operational model for measuring planning system success is developed in terms of two interrelated dimensions---improvements in...

Electronic integration---a form of vertical quasi-integration achieved through the deployment of dedicated computers and communication systems between relevant actors in the adjacent stages of the value-chain---is an important concept to researchers in the information systems field since it...