This paper describes a methodology for management information systems design which employs a formalized framework for significantly involving manager-users in the design process. The process seeks to develop a system design on the basis of a criterion which considers both technical cost-benefit...

A competitive decision support system that has been utilized in a pilot version in a corporate application is described and evaluated. The system is based on the combining of meta-game analysis with a number of mathematical market models. The system facilitates the testing of proposed...

The concept of "participative systems design" should be as applicable to strategic management decision support systems as it is generally believed to be to lower-level systems. This study tests hypotheses concerning participative design using data describing the participation and performance of...

In order to measures the extent to which information technology provides competitive advantages, the construct "Competitive Advantage Provided by an Information Application" (CAPITA) was operationalized. A field survey gathered data from 185 top information systems executives regarding...

A historical analysis of activity time estimates made by a number of contractors on a large-scale systems development project is conducted using two basic hypotheses. (1) Pre-activity time estimating accuracy improves as the beginning date of the activity approaches. (2) Time estimates made...

The use of multiple performance criteria which account for both the static and dynamic aspects of marketing systems is proposed as a necessary step toward scientific marketing analysis. Currently, over-all evaluations using multiple performance measures are difficult to make and even more...

The problem of introducing a consumer product into the market is considered as one of "testing" the product in some restricted group of marketing areas and utilizing the information thereby gained in drawing inference to potential new market areas. A decision rule is developed for classifying...

Cattin [Cattin, P. Comment on designing scientific journals. Management Sci. 25 (3) 295-296.] makes an interesting point in that the unstandardized comparisons made in King, Kilmann and Sochats [King, W. R., Kilmann, R. H., Sochats, K. 1978. Designing scientific journals: issues and survey...

The design parameters of scientific journals are important policy choices for journal editors as well as for the professional areas which they represent. The editorial structure of a journal presents a set of choices which importantly affect the variety of papers which are published, those that...

This paper presents some results of an analysis of time estimating behavior on critical path networks used in large scale development projects. The general results appear to confirm the validity of the tentative conclusions previously reported by King and Wilson [King, W. R., T. A. Wilson. 1967....