An exploratory contingency model of user participation and MIS use

✍ Scribed by Eunhong Kim; Jinjoo Lee

• Book ID: 103898972
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 869 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(86)90038-8

✦ Synopsis

A model is proposed of the relationship between user participation and degree of MIS usage. The model has four dimensions: participation characteristics, system characteristics, system initiator, and the system development environment. Stages of the System Development Life Cycle are considered as a participation characteristics, task complexity as a system characteristic, and top management support and user attitudes as parts of the system development environment. The data are from a cross-sectional survey in Korea, covering 134 users of 77 different information systems in 32 business firms. The results of the analysis support the proposed model in general. Several implications of this for MIS managers are then discussed.