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Decision Support in Organizational Transformation

IFIP TC8 WG8.3 International Conference on Organizational Transformation and Decision Support, 15–16 September 1997, La Gomera, Canary Islands

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Editors:
  1. Patrick Humphreys

    1. London School of Economics, London, UK

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  2. Sabino Ayestaran

    1. University del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain

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  3. Andrew McCosh

    1. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

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  4. Bill Mayon-White

    1. London School of Economics, London, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction and overview

    • P. Humphreys, W. Mayon-White
    Pages 1-7

  3. Decision Support Systems: Structural, conversational and emotional adjustments: Breaking and taking of organisational care

    • O. García, R. Orellana
    Pages 8-21

  4. Measures of Ethicality:- the Calibration of Corporate Moral Transformations

    • A. McCosh
    Pages 22-38

  5. Structure and communications in the process of organisational change: Eastern European experience and its general relevance

    • P. C. Humphreys, E. L. Nappelbaum
    Pages 39-67

  6. How right is wrong

    • M. Schlumberger
    Pages 68-77

  7. Support as intervention in decision processes

    • G. de Zeeuw, J. G. Schuurman
    Pages 78-91

  8. CSCW — A challenge to certain (G)DSS perspectives on the role of decisions, information, and technology in organizations?

    • L. J. Bannon
    Pages 92-121

  9. Management developed DSS and organizational transformation

    • S. A. Carlsson
    Pages 122-149

  10. The Organizational Relational model: proposal and results

    • P. Migliarese, C. Ferioli
    Pages 150-175

  11. Inter organisational systems as a backbone for organisational DSS: scope, impact, examples

    • C. Loebbecke, P. Powell, P. Finnegan, W. Golden
    Pages 176-199

  12. A strategic partnership in outsourcing: a public sector case study

    • C. A. Davies, T. Campbell
    Pages 200-210

  13. Corporate Upsizing:The Evolving Role of DSS in Mergers and Acquisitions

    • A. M. McCosh
    Pages 211-222

  14. The competitiveness of the Hungarian managers

    • Z. Z. Paprika
    Pages 223-241

  15. Organisational Culture and Modes of Conflict Behaviour

    • S. Ayestarán, C. Martínez-Taboada, J. Arróspide, L. Garcia
    Pages 242-255

  16. Systems logic for problem formulation and choice

    • E. L. Nappelbaum
    Pages 256-277

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 278-279
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The main purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the design of computer and communication systems that can aid the management process. 1.1 Historical Overview We propose that Decision Support System can be considered as a design conception conceived within the computer industry to facilitate the use of computer technology in organisations (Keen, 1991). This framework, built during the late 1970s, offers computer and communication technology as support to the decision process which constitutes, in this view, the core of the management process. The DSS framework offers the following capabilities: • Access: ease of use, wide variety of data, analysis and modelling capacity. • Technological: software gel)eration tools. • Development modes: interactive and evolutionary. Within this perspective, computer and communication technologies are seen as an amplification of the human data processing capabilities which limit the decision process. Thus, the human being is understood metaphorically as a data processing machine. Mental processes are associated with the manipulation of symbols aOO human communication to signal transmission.

Editors and Affiliations

  • London School of Economics, London, UK

    Patrick Humphreys, Bill Mayon-White

  • University del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain

    Sabino Ayestaran

  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Andrew McCosh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Decision Support in Organizational Transformation

  • Book Subtitle: IFIP TC8 WG8.3 International Conference on Organizational Transformation and Decision Support, 15–16 September 1997, La Gomera, Canary Islands

  • Editors: Patrick Humphreys, Sabino Ayestaran, Andrew McCosh, Bill Mayon-White

  • Series Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35348-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-83050-1Published: 30 September 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-4922-9Published: 29 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-35348-7Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4238

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-422X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 279

  • Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Information Storage and Retrieval

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