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In: The bulletin of the atomic scientists: a magazine of science and public affairs, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 65
ISSN: 0096-3402, 0096-5243, 0742-3829
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In: The bulletin of the atomic scientists: a magazine of science and public affairs, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 65
ISSN: 0096-3402, 0096-5243, 0742-3829
In: Decision sciences, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 1-29
ISSN: 1540-5915
ABSTRACTA critical decision problem for top management, and the focus of this study, is whether the CEO (chief executive officer) and CIO (chief information officer) should commit their time to formal planning with the expectation of producing an information technology (IT)‐based competitive advantage. Using the perspective of the resource‐based view, a model is presented that examines how strategic IT alignment can produce enhanced organizational strategies that yield competitive advantage. One hundred sixty‐one CIOs provided data using a postal survey. Results supported seven of the eight hypotheses. They showed that information intensity is an important antecedent to strategic IT alignment, that strategic IT alignment is best explained by multiple constructs which operationalize both process and content measures, and that alignment between the IT plan and the business plan is significantly related to the use of IT for competitive advantage. Study results raise questions about the effect of CEO participation, which appears to be the weak link in the process, and also about the perception of the CIO on the importance of CEO involvement. The paper contributes to our understanding of how knowledge sharing in the alignment process contributes to the creation of superior organizational strategies, provides a framework of the alignment‐performance relationship, and furnishes several new constructs.
In: New directions for program evaluation: a quarterly sourcebook, Band 1993, Heft 59, S. 29-41
ISSN: 1534-875X
AbstractThis chapter describes the development and the results of two major surveys on Chicago school reform.
In: Decision sciences, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 419-434
ISSN: 1540-5915
ABSTRACTUser information satisfaction (UIS) is important because of its potential effects on MIS department goals, quality of user work life, and extent of voluntary usage of systems. Reliable measurement of UIS is important for providing evaluative information for both researchers and practitioners. This study used 92 managers and executives as subjects to compare the test/retest reliability of a widely used, 13‐scale UIS instrument together with four summary questions under experimental and control conditions. The summary questions behaved more reliably than the detailed questions for all groups, perhaps because of problems with scale units and origins and with item heterogeneity. This suggests that researchers need more reliable measures of UIS and that practitioners need to exercise caution when collecting and interpreting UIS scores.
In: Regulation: the Cato review of business and government, Band 10, S. 13-24
ISSN: 0147-0590
Based on a chapter in "Advances in applied microeconomics," edited by V. Kerry Smith. Procedures used by the US Environmental Protection Agency in cancer risk assessments.
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Band 75, Heft 1, S. 35-39
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: Journal of economics and business, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 189-206
ISSN: 0148-6195
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 469
ISSN: 1520-6688
In: Decision sciences, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 82-87
ISSN: 1540-5915
ABSTRACTSmall business loan applications have not been evaluated successfully by traditional methods. This paper explores the possibility of using three types of nonfinancial ratio variables (owner, firm, and loan characteristics) to predict whether a small business will pay off or default its loan. The owner and loan variables were better predictors of loan success than the firm variables.
In: Soviet studies: a quarterly review of the social and economic institutions of the USSR, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 581-584
ISSN: 0038-5859
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In: Public choice, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 121-128
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: The Bell journal of economics, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 66
In: Policy studies journal: the journal of the Policy Studies Organization, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 162-167
ISSN: 1541-0072
In: Citizen 2.0: Public and Governmental Interaction through Web 2.0 Technologies, S. 269-296
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 613
ISSN: 1938-274X