Survey Research Methodology in Management Information Systems: An Assessment

Abstract:Survey research is believed to be well understood and applied by management information systems (MIS) scholars. It has been applied for several years and.Key Words and Phrases:: research of management information systemsresearch methodologysurvey research Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlain PinsonneaultAlain Pinsonneault is an Associate Professor at École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. in administration from the University of California at Irvine (1990) and an M.Sc. in management information systems from École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal (1986). His current research interests include the organizational implications of computing, especially with regard to the centralization decentralization of decision-making authority and middle managers work force; the strategic and political uses of computing, the use of information technology to support group decision-making process; and the benefits of computing. He has published articles in Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, and in MIS Quarterly, and one book chapter. He is an associate editor of the journal, Informatization and the Public Sector. His doctoral dissertation won the 1990 International Center for Information Technology Doctoral Award.Kenneth KraemerKenneth L. Kraemer is the Director of the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) and Professor of Management and Information and Computer Science. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Southern California. Professor Kraemer has conducted research into the management of computing in organizations for more than twenty years. He is currently studying the diffusion of computing in Asia-Pacific countries, the dynamics of computing development in organizations, the impacts of computing on productivity in the work environment, and policies for successful implementation of computer-based information systems. In addition, Professor Kraemer is coeditor of a series of books entitled Computing, Organization, Policy, and Society (CORPS) published by Columbia University Press. He has published numerous books on computing, the most recent of which is Managing Information Systems. He has served as a consultant to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Technology Assessment, and the United Nations, and as a national expert to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He was recently Shaw Professor in Information Systems and Computer Sciences at the National University of Singapore.

• 저널Journal of Management Information Systems · 10(2) · 75–105
• 토픽Technology Adoption and User Behaviour · Information Systems and Management
• DOI10.1080/07421222.1993.11518001
• 저자Alain Pinsonneault, Kenneth L. Kraemer