The relationships between management styles, user participation, and system success over MIS growth stages
MIS growth can be viewed as an on-going process of organizational change. An MIS manager has to deal with people and lead them in different ways. Situations change as the MIS growth stages alter and thus each stage may require different management styles and participation-success relationships. This paper investigates the relationships between management styles, user participation, and system success over MIS growth stages. Surveying 172 information managers in different organizations, we found that the relationships between management styles, user participation, and system success are different over different MIS growth stages. Information managers are therefore assumed to be adaptable according to the requirements of MIS growth stages. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
management styles user participation mis growth stage nolan's stage model mis success