Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2015
Abstract
The state of higher education is moving from a slow rate of change to a faster rate of change because external expectations are rising. External forces are influencing sources of funding that impact both public and private schools and schools need to react. As institutions of higher learning adapt to change in the external environment, schools must adopt more efficient ways to use information to make strategic decisions. Schools recognize the need to create better use of data and are striving to achieve that, but this study demonstrates that the degree of decentralization prevalent in institutions of higher learning hinders the ability to do that effectively. Higher education seems to create problems for itself that may stem from an institutionalized culture which distorts the ability for schools to think systematically about strategy and adapt to the changing external environment.
Keywords
education, higher--costs, enterprise resource planning, Weatherhead School of Management, strategic decision making, higher education, complex systems
Rights
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Department/Center
Design & Innovation
Recommended Citation
Campbell, Cory Allen, "Mis-Institutionalization: Accounting Information Systems (AIS) and Decision Making in Higher Education" (2015). Student Scholarship. 306.
https://commons.case.edu/studentworks/306