Undergraduate and graduate courses in Information Resources Management: Educational and managerial judgement about appropriate course content

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Laribee, J.

Affiliations: Lumpkin College of Business, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920, USA

Abstract: The young and emerging field of Information Resources Management (IRM) has evolved under the premise that information and its technologies are vital organizational resources, and deserve to be managed as skillfully as other factors of production such as capital, land and labor. This paper presents the result of a survey conducted to identify and report on the degree to which various topics in IRM are considered important for inclusion in IRM courses at the undergraduate (bachelor's) and graduate (master's) levels. Eighty-four information systems managers and sixty-three management information systems educators participated in the survey. Based on the analysis of the results of the survey, course-content schemata are proposed for IRM courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels of study.

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-1992-10103

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 17-33, 1992