MIS in Soviet industrial enterprise: the limits of reform from above

  • Authors:
  • William K. McHenry;Seymour E. Goodman

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC;Univ. of Arizona, Tucson

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

The USSR has carried out a large-scale program to bring computer-based information systems, called Automated Enterprise Management Systems (ASUPs), to industrial enterprises. This program illustrates the extent to which computer-based information systems are inextricably embedded in the surrounding social, economic, and political systems.