Factors Affecting the Policy for Distributing Computing Resources.

Author List: Ahituv, Niv; Neumann, Seev; Zviran, Moshe;

MIS Quarterly, 1989, Volume 13, Issue 4, Page 389-401.

This article discusses the findings of an empirical study conducted on 303 organizations. The major purpose of the study was to analyze the relationship between various organizational attributes and the deployment of hardware resources. The salient finding was that the most influential variable is the distribution of decision-making processes in the organization. The more decision making is distributed, the more hardware is distributed. No significant relationships were detected between hardware distribution and any of the following variables: organizational structure, economic sectorial association, and the size of the organization.

Keywords: Centralization /decentralization; distributed systems; systems management.

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#209	0.231	results study research information studies relationship size variables previous variable examining dependent increases empirical variance accounting independent demonstrate important addition
#277	0.208	structure organization structures organizational centralized decentralized study organizations forms decentralization processing communication sharing cbis activities appropriate provide identify organizing communications
#231	0.156	information management data processing systems corporate article communications organization control distributed department capacity departments major user hardware cost applications expansion
#35	0.061	technology organizational information organizations organization new work perspective innovation processes used technological understanding technologies transformation consequences perspectives use administrative economic