Imagine you are a member of the Academy of Management (AOM) and on the steering committee to choose a location for the organization’s annual meeting. When making the recommendation, you will explain which management theory was used to make that choice. One steering committee member insists that the AOM choose the location by using state-of-the-art information management to compile data about member locations and members’ history of attending past annual meetings.

This reflects which approach to management?

(A) Operations management
(B) Contingency management
(C) Systems management(D) Information management