This paper studies the influence of a manager's pre-decision use of an information system on the central office's decision to provide such a system in the first place. At the outset, the manager is ignorant about the cost of an investment project. Higher effort when using the information system...

Information technology is also having effects on structures. Because of the easier and speedier communications and the increasing sophistication of automatic decision making by computers, middle management is tending to disappear in many organisations. Organisations are becoming flatter and...

In response to the need to achieve a consistent view on how to organise technology intelligence (TI) activities, a generalised framework to support the creation of TI systems was developed by Kerr et al. [2006]. This paper generalises the structure of TI systems by observing and abstracting from...

As a decision maker, an organization's principal relies on workers to acquire costly information and on division managers to summarize it. This arrangement creates two agency problems: workers and managers have incentives to underprovide and to manipulate information, respectively. A degree of...

This open access book provides a broad range of insights on market engineering and information management. It covers topics like auctions, stock markets, electricity markets, the sharing economy, information and emotions in markets, smart decision-making in cities and other systems, and...

The purpose of the present work was to analyse the importance of the use of information systems and technologies in management procedures in the hospital sector. We therefore intended to evidence the effects of the use of the information produced by means of those instruments in the improvement...

Purpose: Management Information System is considered to be very significant in modern day organisations, because of its ability to collect, compile and process information that is used by the management to make strategic decisions. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the significance...