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- Title
A Contingency View of Managing the Data Processing Organization.
- Authors
Wetherbe, Jim C.; Whitehead, Canton J.
- Abstract
This article relates contingency theory management to the EDP function of the organization. The technology and environment of an organization establish the organization's position on a continuum ranging from closed/stable/mechanistic to open/adaptive/organic. The application of this concept is interesting and useful for the EDP manager. Two components of the EDP function, production and development, are related to managerial contingency theory.
- Subjects
MANAGEMENT; ELECTRONIC data processing departments; CONTINGENCY theory (Management); MANAGEMENT information systems; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; DATABASE management; ORGANIZATION; ATTITUDES toward technology; INNOVATION adoption; SYSTEMS development; COMPUTER science
- Publication
MIS Quarterly, 1977, Vol 1, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0276-7783
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/248763