Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 102 Issue 3

IT and strategic decision making

Lisbeth Hedelin, Carl Martin Allwood

A total of 41 top executive managers in large organizations/enterprises were interviewed about factors affecting their demands on, attitudes towards and use of, information and…

Implementing corporate intranets: lessons learned from two high‐tech firms

William P. Wagner, Q.B. Chung, Todd Baratz

Intranets are perhaps the hottest applications in the field of telecommunications today. The rapid growth of this application belies the fact that it has received little…

Business process reengineering for flexibility and innovation in manufacturing

Qingyu Zhang, Mei Cao

In response to an increasingly global and competitive environment, the flexibility to adapt to changing market needs and develop innovative cross‐functional processes is…

The effects of just‐in‐time systems on financial accounting metrics

David T. Boyd, Larry Kronk, Russell Skinner

The literature indicates that JIT has been successful as an inventory reduction tool. JIT systems do not, however, automatically increase profit, because the benefits from JIT…

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems: a research agenda

Majed Al‐Mashari

The continuing development of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has been considered by many researchers and practitioners as one of the major IT innovations in this…

Interrelationships between TMT management styles and organizational innovation

Wann‐Yih Wu, Chwan‐Yi Chiang, Jeng‐Sin Jiang

The major purpose of this study is empirically to investigate the relationships among management styles of top management teams (TMT), decision‐making modes, and organizational…