Relationship Between the Level of Institutionalization and Management Information Systems in Businesses

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate if there is a relationship between the levels of institutionalization of businesses and their use of management information systems. For this purpose, within the scope of this study, which was implemented with 90% confidence interval, a threefold survey containing demographic questions, questions measuring the level of institutionalization, and questions aiming to determine the managament information systems used in the organisation was conducted with 100 business officials in Ankara without making a distincion between the organisations and the obtained data was analyzed statistically with SPSS program. As a result of the correlation test conducted, a significant and positive relationship was determined. The generated r value is 0,299 and it is between the values of 0,2 and 0,4. Therefore, the relationship was interpreted as a weak one. Besides, it was observed that whereas the levels of institutionalization of the businesses do not change according to activity sector or years of activity, they change according to number of employees or partnership structure. It was also observed that whereas business’ use of management information systems do not change according to activity sector or partnership structure, they change according to years of activity or number of employees.