Forwarded message from [eindor@post.tau.ac.il] sent originally on Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:07:01 -0700: : Journal of AIS : Volume 1, number 3 : : The first two articles published in JAIS focused on Internet related : issues ? web page design and legitimacy and acceptance of electronic : journals. However, JAIS is mandated to address all fields of IS : research. Thus, the current paper reverts to a longer established IS : topic ? the role of IS in decision making. : : The authors are Giusseppi Forgionne of the University of Maryland : Baltimore County and Rajiv Kohli of the University of Notre Dame and : Holy Cross Health System. : : Management Support Systems endeavor to enhance support to : decision-makers. The idea is to integrate executive information and : expert system techniques into DSS so as to provide a more complete and : better rounded support environment. Intuitively appealing as the concept : appears, little work has been done to verify its effectiveness. This : article presents an empirical investigation designed to assess the : effectiveness of MSS in the context of strategic decision making. : : The paper describes a controlled laboratory experiment in which the : subjects were required to forecast uncontrolled variables and to set : values for decision variables. Subjects in the experimental group were : provided an MSS with DSS, EIS, and Expert system components. The control : group relied only on the DSS core. : : Analysis of the experimental results tends to support the proposition : that MSS can enhance decision effectiveness as compared to the basic : DSS. : : Phillip Ein-Dor : Editor, Journal of AIS : : ______________________________________ : Phillip Ein-Dor : Editor, Journal of AIS (http://jais.isworld.org) : Faculty of Management : Tel-Aviv University : Tel-Aviv 69978 : ISRAEL : __ : phone: +972-3-6406343 fax: +972-3-6407741 : e-mail: mailto:eindor@post.tau.ac.il : URL: http://www.tau.ac.il/~eindor/eindorp.html : _______________________________________ : : ===== Start of ISWorld List Footer ===== : ISWorld list is a service of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) : (http://www.aisnet.org) hosted at University College Dublin. For archives, : subscribing, or posting "norms" see http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist : ===== End of ISWorld List Footer =====

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