Excerpt from An Agency Theory View of the Management of End-User Computing
Decentralized computing. Defined here as the transfer of control from centralized IS departments to end-user or functional departments, has continued to grow in scope and in degree (arthur Andersen The decentralization of computing cannot be explained simply by examining the economics of the production of information services. If that were true, one might witness the growth of distributed computing as distinguished from decentralized computing. Distributed computing is defined as the location of hardware, software and personnel at. Various sites throughout the organization with the important provision that control decision rights remain vested in a central authority.