Most of the studies of EIS development and use have been of organisations in
Western industrialised countries. Many developing countries are investing heavily in
information technology. In particular, the newly industrialised countries of South-East
Asia depend upon information technology to support rapid economic growth and their
position in an extremely competitive commercial hemisphere. It follows that many large
organisations in developing countries will have implemented or are considering
implementing EIS to support their senior executives. “Are these systems successful? Are
they different to Western EIS? Are they developed differently?” are three fundamental
questions that have not been addressed by previous studies but are the subject of this
paper.