Management and Organizational Issues for Decision Making Support Systems

Decision making support systems (DMSSs) are specialized computer-based information systems that have emerged in the last 30 years to support all phases of the decision making process, from intelligence through the design, choice, implementation and learning phases. DMSSs have evolved from classic decision support systems, executive information systems and expert systems , intelligent systems, Web-DSS, data warehouse and data mining-based systems, knowledge management systems, and enterprise information and decision portals systems. These systems offer organizational and individual benefits, such as improved organizational performance, improved decision quality, improved communication , enhanced mental models, amplified analytical skills of decision makers, and reduced decision times. Despite the high availability of emergent information technology architectures and complex information systems, successful DMSSs have not been fully deployed immediately in organizations. Management and organizational barriers in addition to technological issues, must be overcome in order to have successful implementation of DMSSs. For this reason, we encourage the DMSS scientific and practitioner community to propose research articles dealing with the management and organizational issues relevant for successful DMSS design , development, and diffusion within organizations. This special issue's mission is to present the state-of-the-art core theory and application of management and organizational issues relevant to successful implementations of decision making support systems (DMSSs) in organizations. In turn, the main aims are: (a) to generate a compendium of quality theoretical and applied papers on management and organizational issues in DMSSs; (b) to help disperse scarce knowledge about effective methods and strategies for successfully designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating DMSSs, and (c) to create an awareness among academi-cians and practitioners about the relevance of DMSSs in the current complex and dy