Past research on decision support systems has focused on numerousfunctional capabilities and decision outcomes. The findings of this stream of research are contradictory and the empirical evidence supporting competing viewpoints is overwhelming. A plausible explanation of these equivocal results is that most studies have been poorly grounded in theory and overlooked important characteristics of...

In South Africa, as elsewhere, Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities are managed by professional nurses. Little is known about the dimensions and challenges of their job, or what influences their managerial practice. Drawing on leadership and organizational theory, this study explored what the job of being a PHC manager entails, and what factors influence their managerial practice. We specifical...

City Ontology plays an important role in smart city management for data integration, reasoning decision support etc. With these managerial domain knowledge scattered among a large number of experts, researchers face a huge challenge constructing a complete ontology for city management. This paper presents a simple yet efficient method for non-computer science experts to construct an ontology. W...

T development of the information systems (IS) literature in Management Science during the past 50 years reflects the inception, growth, and maturation of several different research streams. The five research streams we identify incorporate different definitions of the managerial problems that relate to IS, the alternate theoretical perspectives and different methodological paradigms to study th...

The development of the Information Systems (IS) literature in Management Science during the past fifty years reflects the inception, growth and maturation of several different research streams. The five research streams we identify incorporate different definitions of the managerial problems that relate to IS, the alternate theoretical perspectives and different methodological paradigms to stud...

Decision making is one of the important activities of the managerial problems. Scientific methodology for quantitative techniques is an essential tool in the contemporary decision making protocols. In this paper an attempt is made to develop a stochastic model on manager’s performance appraisal. Managerial choice among the available options for decision making is formulated to obtain the stocha...

The economic accuracy of accrual-based managerial performance measures is most essential for value added investment decisions in decentralised firms. Contemporary EVA-literature often lends support to annuity-based depreciation schedules for accomplishing congruence between capital budgeting criteria, like NPV, and accounting measures, like ROI and RI. This is incongruent with the principal age...