Management Information Systems in Public Enterprise

Abstract

The inter-face between the government and public enterprises is not only a sensitive but perhaps a highly critical aspect of the decisional process in public enterprise.1 This has been complicated by the lack of mutual understanding and trust between the political and administrative authorities on one side and the boards and managements of public enterprises on the other. To some extent this has been caused by difficulties in defining, or by political preference for flexibility in delineating, the respective roles of the two sides. The lack of mutual trust seems to have been worsened by inadequacies in the availability of information as well as those in the proper flow of whatever information is available.