The Impact of Management Information System’s Organizational Slack to Syngenta Company

Abstract

Management information systems (MIS) is the usage of information systems at the operational, tactical, and strategic levels so that businesses are aided in the achievement of goals. (Oprea, 2007) While the use of MIS is already quite common, its many benefits have lately piqued the interest of researchers particularly on the phenomenon of slack. Companies typically prefer to remove slack as it has suffered from a negative reputation.  However, recent studies by Bae and Rhee (2014) as well as by Heng, Ding, Guo, and Luo (2014) have shown that slack actually leads to innovation.  It is because of these interesting discoveries that pushed the proponent to conduct a study on the contribution of organizational slack towards the innovative performance of Syngenta company. Survey were gathered to provide the needed information. Key informants were likewise interviewed in order to generate additional insights about the variables under investigation. The results showed convincingly that slack affects the innovation of the company.  However, some effects of the slacks were positive and some were negative. The recommendations put forward by this research is that JDI should maximize its innovation, they should reduce both absorbed and unabsorbed slack as much as possible since slack and innovation are inversely proportional in JDI’s case.  As long as they cut back on excessive spending on equipment and make use of their spare resources like reserve funds, then the innovation the company will surely improve.