MIS Quarterly articles from March 1996

MIS Quarterly archives from March 1996

Issues and concerns about computer-supported meetings: the facilitator's perspective.
March 1, 1996... Introduction Face-to-face meetings serve as a venue to bring together organizational leaders for decision making, issue tracking, policy setting, and a variety of activities aimed at adding reliability and flexibility in response to the...

Determinants of commitment to information systems development: a longitudinal investigation.
March 1, 1996... Introduction Successful development of an information system (IS) has long been believed to depend on the commitment to the project (Ginzberg, 1981; Kwon and Zmud, 1987; Lucas, 1981; Markus, 1981). Top-management commitment is rated as the...

Measuring the linkage between business and information technology objectives.
March 1, 1996... Introduction In recent surveys of information systems and business managers (Galliers, et al., 1994; Index Group, 1988; Niederman, et al., 1991), information technology (IT) planning has consistently been rated as one of their most important...

An empirical examination of the value of creativity support systems on idea generation.
March 1, 1996... Introduction To respond effectively in today's quickly changing, highly complex business environment, management must depend on organizational members' mental capacities to generate new and meaningful ideas (Beckett, 1992; Herrmann, 1993;...

Cognitive elements in the implementation of new technology: can less information provide more benefits?
March 1, 1996... Introduction Organizations have come to rely on technological innovation as a central component of their competitive strategy (Reddy, 1990). While new technologies hold tremendous promise for enhancing organizations' efficiency and...