Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper reports on a study which attempted to identify the structure of executive information systems and evaluate their relationship to decision making. The study centered on answering the question: “Where and how do senior executives get their decision‐making information?” The data, provided by five senior executives, were gathered by a variety of means which included personal interviews, questionnaires, and logs of the executives' incoming‐information transactions for a two‐week period. Our findings support beliefs that senior executives receive much information from the environment, that informal systems play a role equal to that of formal systems, and that computers do not provide much information directly to an executive. The study also found that internal information is important and that preferred sources and media vary with different decision roles. The authors suggest that the scope of MIS and DSS be broadened to match those information networks managers actually rely on in daily practice.
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Executive information systemVariety (cybernetics)Scope (computer science)Information systemKnowledge managementExploratory researchManagement information systemsComputer scienceBusinessSociologyEngineering
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- 1986
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- article
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 220-249
- Citations
- 89
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Jack William Jones,
Raymond McLeod
(1986).
THE STRUCTURE OF EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS.
Decision Sciences
, 17
(2)
, 220-249.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5915.1986.tb00223.x
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- 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1986.tb00223.x