Middle managers were asked to report in a questionnaire what they perceived to be the effect of the contextual variables of decentralization and environmental uncertainty on the strategic role of management information. The respondent middle managers worked for a foreign subsidiary of a large,...

Much of management theory is based on the writings of early 20th-century Western scholars whose disciplinary orientations were heavily grounded in economics and classical sociology. These writings depict homo sapiens as an individualistic, utility-maximizing, transaction-oriented species. In...

With the rapid rate of globalization, the volume and complexity of the information that managers use has increased exponentially. However, there is little research to understand the characteristics of information considered important by managers. This study empirically investigated the impact of...

In recent years organizations have had to make radical changes to adapt to rapidly changing environments. At the same time there has been a growing skepticism among organizational participants regarding the real motivation for the changes introduced by the organization. This has created an...