Organizational Factors Affecting the Success of End-User Computing

Paul H. Cheney, Robert I. Mann, Donald L. Amoroso

Journal of Management Information Systems · 1986 · Volume 3 · Issue 1

DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1986.11517755

Abstract

End-user computing is one of the most significant phenomena to occur in the information systems industry in the last ten years [10, 39]. This paper attempts to identify those variables that affect the success or failure of end-user computing within an organization. The variables are classified as controllable, partially controllable, or uncontrollable. A conceptual scheme originally suggested by Ein-Dor and Segev [24] is adopted and applied to end-user computing. Previous research on end-user computing is reviewed and several propositions relating organizational variables to the success of end-user computing are suggested.

Keywords

End-user computing, organizational factors of management information systems (mis)

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