End-user control environments and the accounting managers' perceived quality of the applications

✍ Scribed by Richard L. Jenson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 691 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(93)90073-3

✦ Synopsis

The availability of powerful application development tools has raised important questions about the extent to which control can and should be administered over end-user developers. This study examines the relationships among four factors hypothesized to be relevant to the control of end-user computing and the quality of such applications.

The variables examined were end-user application quality, the extent of management concern about end-user computing issues, the extent of the organizational control environment, and the impact of resulting applications.

Management concern about end-user control was shown to have a positive linear relationship with application impact, control environment, and application quality. There was no support for the hypothesis that a more extensive control environment is related to higher application quality.