CORPORATE CULTURE, RELATED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER TRAITS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXECUTIVE INFORMATION-SYSTEMS

Executive information systems (EIS) are becoming more and more importa nt to executive decision makers in today's organizations. EIS have gai ned more popularity in the past few years in the scholarly and practit ioner press. However, the researchers and writers have failed to recog nize that an EIS is a highly personalized system. In view of this fact , the cognitive traits of the top manager, along with the related cult ure of the organization, should be taken into consideration in develop ing these systems. This paper suggests some guidelines for developing EIS in two opposing organizational cultures: a hierarchical culture an d an adhocracy culture. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd