This study addresses a potentially significant deficiency of the extant innovation adoption paradigm: its inability to account for rhetorical actions as a component of the innovation decision process. A multi-stage empirical methodology was created and used to investigate how decisionmakers...

Integration between business planning (BP) and information systems planning (ISP) is crucial for the information systems (IS) function to more effectively support business strategies. This study examines two modes of ISP -- reactive and proactive -- as defined by the extent of BP-ISP...

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...