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Top2. Literature Review
The impact of the organizational dimension on IS success has continued to be researched using multiple perspectives. Some of the researches have used different terminologies including contexts, variables, and factors when referring to organizational dimension. Lu & Wang (1997) for example, used management style as a measure of organizational context. Saunders & Jones (1992) identified organizational variables as: Mission, size, goals, top management support, IS executive hierarchical placement, maturity of IS function, size of IS function, management philosophy/style, evaluator perspective, culture, and IS budget size. In addition, Ang et al. (2001) identified organizational factors that influence IT usage as organizational structure, organizational size, managerial IT knowledge, top management support, financial resources, goal alignment and budgeting method.
Based on a comprehensive list of organizational factors from related studies (Grover, 1993; and Ang et al., 2001), six organizational factors that influence are successes were identified to be used in this study. The six factors are: Decision-making structure, top management support, goal alignment, managerial IT knowledge, management style, and resources allocation that are presented in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Organizational factors dimension