The use of social media has soared in popularity in recent years. Facebook has over 1.3 billion users, while Twitter and LinkedIn users number in the hundreds of millions. New social media platforms, like Pinterest and Snapchat, seem to appear rapidly and from out of nowhere. Organizations, however, have largely lagged the public in their adoption of social media platforms for business purposes...

although some researchers do not doubt the effectiveness of user participation in mis success, research findings show that such relationships is not consistent under all circumstances. the present paper investigates the relations between user participation, on mis success in light of the managerial styles over systems growth stages. six product-oriented companies were elected which had a minimu...

BACKGROUND The field of postgraduate minimally invasive surgery/gastrointestinal surgery (MIS/GIS) training has undergone substantial growth and change. To determine whether fellowships are meeting a strategic need in training, we conducted a survey to assess the current status and trends of change in MIS/GIS fellowships. METHODS A survey was distributed to fellows currently in MIS/GIS progra...

this paper aims to recognise information security policies (isp) and their relationship with the effectiveness of the management information systems (mis) of the major palestinian universities in the gaza strip. the researchers used the descriptive analytical approach. they used a questionnaire as a research tool. they used a stratified random sample to explore viewpoints of the research sample...

This paper describes a microeconomic theory-based tool, called cost analysis, which can be used in MIS research to develop guidance for systems analysts and information resource managers. An example of this guidance is a matrix of decision making contexts versus appropriate MIS/DSS support. Systems analysts can use this matrix to help identify appropriate MIS/DSS design alternatives. Informatio...

Planning for the information systems in an organization generally has not been closely related to the overall strategic planning processes through which the organization prepares for its future. An M/S strategic planning process is conceptualized and illustrated as one which /inks the. organization’s "strategy set" tb an MIS "strategy set. " The literature of management information systems (MIS...

This paper deals with the measurement of per capita household consumption expenditures when the household's underlying demographic structure changes during the survey period. To do this, we provide a formal definition of precisely what it means to mis-measure the household's demographic structure. We then use assumptions on demographic processes within the household during the survey period to ...