Recognizing that MIS planning is fast emerging as an important tropic for both practitioners and researchers, this paper develops key guidelines for MIS planning research. By illustrating similarities between the research streams of MIS planning and t...
Recognizing that MIS planning is fast emerging as an important tropic for both practitioners and researchers, this paper develops key guidelines for MIS planning research. By illustrating similarities between the research streams of MIS planning and the organizational strategic planning, this paper derives three major guidelines from a critical review and evaluation of progress made in the strategic research trend over the last decade.
Those are : (1) recognition of hierarchy of MIS planning levels and corresponding hierarchy in MIS planning benefits : (2) specific attention to operationalization of construct to ensure correspondence between theoretical conceptualization and empirical observation : and (3) the adoption of an overarching research framework rooted in the contingency theory tradition.