Factors Affecting the Policy for Distributing Computing

This article discusses the findings of an empiri- cal study conducted on 303 organizations. The major purpose of the study was to analyze the relationship between various organizational at- tributes and the deployment of hardware re- sources. The salient finding was that the most influential variable is the distribution of decision- making processes in the organization. The more decision making is distributed, the more hard- ware is distributed. No significant relationships were detected between hardware distribution and any of the following variables: organiza- tional structure, economic sectorial association, and the size of the organization.

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