Impediments to the Use of Management Information: A Study Carried Out on Behalf of the National Association of Accountants, New York, N.Y., and the Society of Industrial Accountants of Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Common terms and phrases
Accountants of Canada Ackoff Administrative Rationality aggregation Aguilar analysis Argyris behavior biases brain absorbs budget cites Cognitive Dissonance cognitive limitations cognitive psychologists costs decision processes discussed drives the manager effect empirical studies evidence that managers example executive external information fact failure and threat favor verbal channels filtering process formal information system formal systems gossip Guetzkow Halberstam Ijiri inappropriate information Information lost due information the manager inputs intelligent filtering Kakar literature Magic Number Seven management accounting management information Management information systems Management Science manager needs manager to favor manager's McGill University messages Miller Mintzberg MIS design MIS specialists Ontario organization Organizational Intelligence paper pattern points power and politics Prentice-Hall Project Committee psychological failure quantitative relevant reports result Review rigid and dysfunctional selective perception short-term memory Society of Industrial sources of information stored subset surrogate measures teletype unreliable Vietnam Vietnam war VIEW OF IMPEDIMENTS Wilensky