Management in America has become significantly more data-intensive, yet the economic, organizational, and strategic implications of this shift are poorly understood. Working with the U.S. Census Bureau, we developed measures of how manufacturing firms have used data to guide decision making over...

This paper aims to focus on the decision making procedure "Ringi System" of Japanese Management Process. It is a decision making process termed "Ringi" with a bottom up approach to overcome the traditional autocratic decision making practice. The paper aims at the characteristics of decision...

This article mentions the main tools proposed by some authors in the strategy field from the mid-twentieth century to nowadays and can be used to facilitate the corporate decision making process. the description of each tool is briefly presented in its structure and application and it ends with...

Recent years have seen dramatic changes in data storage and processing technologies. New opportunities to collect and leverage data have led many managers to change how they make decisions — relying less on intuition and more on data. In this paper we provide the first systematic empirical...

A qualitative, grounded theory research was conducted to explore and deepen the understanding of how middle and low level managers can initialize and manage information technology (IT) outsourcing projects. The study involved 17 managers and leaders working in Ukraine in offshore software...

Die Menge an digitalen Daten steigt rasant. Im Jahr 2018 wurden 33 Zettabytes (33 Milliarden Terabytes) an Daten generiert und für 2020 werden 47 Zettabytes prognostiziert. In den meisten Unternehmen wird das Potenzial verfügbarer Daten zur Unterstützung von (Investitions-) Entscheidungen...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of individuals' competencies in business intelligence (BI) and analytics (BA) on process effectiveness (PE). Moreover, to investigate the mediating role of user participation (UP) and the moderating role of gender in this relationship. An...

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...

Die internationale Beachtung der Forschungsergebnisse in der Wirtschaftsinformatik hat in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dabei wird dem kritischen Diskurs ein wachsender Stellenwert eingeräumt. Hier gilt es, den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in der Konzeption und Durchführung der...

Die internationale Beachtung der Forschungsergebnisse in der Wirtschaftsinformatik hat in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dabei wird dem kritischen Diskurs ein wachsender Stellenwert eingeräumt. Hier gilt es, den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in der Konzeption und Durchführung der...