A framework of composite information systems for strategic advantage

Abstract

One important category of strategic applications involves intracorporate linkage or intracorporate integration. Applications in this category require multiple systems to work together. The authors refer to this category of information systems as composite information systems (CIS). They present the research issues and directions they have identified to date that may lead to a comprehensive foundation of CIS. With the systems environment in context, they investigate the strategic, technical, and organizational issues involved in CIS and the corresponding research directions. The authors are actively building a theory of CIS based on the research direction they have identified.<>