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Diran, Kevin M. – Journal of Higher Education, 1978
The reasons underlying the "failure" of a management information and planning system at a unit of a large urban university system are examined. The problems experienced include the level of expectations, methodology of implementation, and degree of commitment or perceived self-interest. The factors relate to human rather than technological aspects…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Planning, Expectation, Failure