Computers as an innovation in American local governments
Communications of the ACM
Curriculum recommendations for graduate professional programs in information systems
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Managing the computer resource: a stage hypothesis
Communications of the ACM
The New Science of Management Decision
The New Science of Management Decision
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
Social Analyses of Computing: Theoretical Perspectives in Recent Empirical Research
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Bringing in the expert: Private consultant penetration into local governments
SIGCPR '79 Proceedings of the sixteenth annual SIGCPR conference
Developing and prioritizing data processing applications for municipalities
ACM '78 Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference - Volume 2
Six models for the social accountability of computing
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
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Traditional concepts of management information systems (MIS) bear little relation to the information systems currently in use by top management in most US local governments. What exists is management-oriented computing, involving the use of relatively unsophisticated applications. Despite the unsophisticated nature of these systems, management use of computing is surprisingly common, but also varied in its extent among local governments. Management computing is most prevalent in those governments with professional management practices where top management is supportive of computing and tends to control computing decisions and where department users have less control over design and implementation activities. Finally, management computing clearly has impacts for top managers, mostly involving improvements in decision information.