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...

The advancement of computing and communication technologies have profoundly accelerated the development and deployment of complex enterprise systems, creating an importance in its implementation across corporate and industrial organizations worldwide. This handbook addresses the field of...

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...