Abstract
Managing Information Systems explores managerial action in the development of computing in seven city governments. The authors develop a typology of computing states relating locus of managerial control and predilections of managers based on trajectories along which computing developed in these cities. Questions about the nature of organizational change, variable impacts of environmental stimuli on organizations, effects of managerial action in mediating environmental stimuli, and initiating organizational change motivate this work.
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