An information systems view of Chinese state enterprises

This study evaluates information systems (IS) in four large Chinese state enterprises (CSEs) located in Beijing. The IS areas considered are IS planning support, IS planning methodology, data resource management, and the IS managerʹs role. While this study observes that these CSEs, among the largest in all China, have IS support only marginally better than that which existed 4 years earlier, it also finds evidence of slowly emerging change. An approach for evaluating IS in CSEs is proposed that focuses a lens on IS assets as an intermediate variable in benchmarking a CSEʹs strategic adjustment toward reform.