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The results indicate that: more than 20 per cent of the firms already used DSS or EIS and an additional 37 per cent had plans to adopt them shortly; 87 per cent of the firms considered DSS and EIS to be important to their competitiveness; middle- and lower-level managers were major DSS and EIS users; half of them used the system every day; the most troublesome problem in developing DSS\/EIS was the difficulty in determining information requirements; and information aggregation and what-if analysis were major functions for decision support. Furthermore, quantitative models were employed only in large and old companies. The most popular models included linear programming, PERT\/CPM, and regression analysis, whereas the most popular domains for application were finance and production management.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1108\/09593849710194687","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,28]],"date-time":"2002-07-28T18:52:06Z","timestamp":1027882326000},"page":"303-315","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["DSS and EIS applications in Taiwan"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Ting-Peng","family":"Liang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shin-Yuan","family":"Hung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"2025072819493539600_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"21","DOI":"10.1016\/0378-7206(84)90004-1","article-title":"An experiment in applying the adaptive design approach to DSS development","volume":"7","author":"Alavi","year":"1984","journal-title":"Information & Management"},{"issue":"1","key":"2025072819493539600_b2","first-page":"39","article-title":"A taxonomy of decision support systems","volume":"19","author":"Alter","year":"1977","journal-title":"Sloan Management Review"},{"key":"2025072819493539600_b3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Barki, H.\n           and Huff, S.L. 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