Showing papers in "International Journal of Information Management in 1986"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined assumptions about the nature of complex organizations in relation to the design of information systems and found that these assumptions do not support some of the current assumptions about information in complex organizations and the implications of this are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between information-related investments and organizational productivity is reviewed and the concepts of cost, price and value are discussed and a variety of approaches for assessing the organizational impact of information inputs and information technology investments considered.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze information system implementation from an innovation research perspective, focusing on four characteristics -simplexity, radicalness, originality and divisibility of information systems.

TL;DR: This article conducted interviews with manufacturing firms, public librarians, and other information suppliers during the period May-October 1985 in Greater Manchester, Cleveland and Lincolnshire to investigate the use of various sources of external information and types of information demanded.

TL;DR: A new model for information system design is proposed based on the findings that the way managers go about their work at succeedingly higher levels in an organization is both quantitatively and qualitatively different.

TL;DR: This paper describes how the author first became interested in, and identified with, helping users to play a major role in the design of their own computer-based work systems.

TL;DR: This paper explored the role of articles published in three core general sociological journals during 1960 and 1973 and found that citations from subsequently published articles indicate the extent to which publications play an integrating role in the discipline.

TL;DR: In this paper, the critical factors which appear to impede the implementation of information systems are the inability to define the information needs, lack of systematic and disaggregated data, reliance on secondary sources and administrative records, and lack of effective data processing devices, shortage of skilled personnel for data analysis, inadequate and defective methods and procedures for monitoring and evaluation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a statistical analysis of the journals and papers abstracted in Population Index, 1984 is presented, where a Bradford distribution is fitted to the papers in all the journals regularly scanned by Population Index and in the journals specifically designated as demography.

TL;DR: A procedure for the economic appraisal of management information is outlined and is a start towards a more formal approach, which is required because of the growth of information technology and the production of information within organizations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the information needs of the Metro Manila Commission are reviewed in the light of the developments that have taken place during its first ten years in operation, and a detailed analysis is made of the information need of four types of planning activity carried out by the Commission: strategic policy formulation, capital investment management, programme monitoring, and local planning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors comprehensively describes and analyses three approaches: the political, the economic and the scoring models, and concludes that only a comprehensive methodology that uses the techniques objectively will ensure that the IS portfolio contains a balanced view of the needs of the total organization.

TL;DR: In this article, auteur presente les efforts developpes par les Nations-Unies dans le domaine de la gestion de l'information du secteur public dans les pays en developement.