Turbulence within an organization 's environment often creates changes in the need for information and consequently in existing information systems. Coping with these changes can be extremely complicated. Part of our research which is addressed in this paper is to describe and analyze these...

This study investigates the validity of two commonly used measures for the success of management support systems (MS): usage and user information satisfaction (UIS). The results of a questionnaire survey among Dutch managers are used to assess the mutual relation between both measures and...

From its inception on, the notion of management support systems (MS) has been closely linked to task structuredness. Using data collected with a survey questionnaire, this article presents the results of an empirical analysis of the relation between task structuredness and satisfaction with MS....

In the past decades, the potential of information systems to support organizational activities and to attain competitive advantage has been widely recognised by academic literature as well as the business community. IS planning methods have been constructed in an attempt to use IS successfully...

Companies are installing groupware to gain more efficiency. This article is based on a research done at a global leasing company to the high-order effects of groupware. The groupware was used by an international european team in the company developping a new database. The major effects of using...

In this paper we examine how business strategy influences the nature and extent of firms' market orientation and how this in turn influences the extent of firms' new product activity. Specifically, we develop a framework linking firms' relative emphasis on cost leadership, product...

This article presents four basic innovation leadership styles: charismatic, instrumental, strategic and interactive innovation leadership. The leadership styles and their characteristics relate to process and product innovations in construction projects. A theoretical framework - which...