Factors Influencing Environmental Scanning in the Organizational Context
This paper identifies and analyses the factors internal to the organization, which affect the activity of environmental scanning, understood here as the information seeking activity of managers, directed at the company's external environment. These factors include individual factors, such as in...
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University of Borås
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| description | This paper identifies and analyses the factors internal to the organization, which affect the activity of environmental scanning, understood here as the information seeking activity of managers, directed at the company's external environment. These factors include individual factors, such as information consciousness and exposure to information, and organizational factors such as information climate and "outwardness". The main relationships among them are also analysed. These factors were identified in the course of research aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding of the environmental scanning process (<a href="#cor96b">Correia & Wilson, 1996</a>). The methodology used - a case-study approach coupled with the grounded theory method of qualitative analysis - was of major importance in obtaining information that is grounded largely on the personal experience of managers. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-402c8914f26e4f159b3931d99bfc9f052025-02-02T06:48:36ZengUniversity of BoråsInformation Research: An International Electronic Journal1368-16132001-01-0171121Factors Influencing Environmental Scanning in the Organizational ContextZita CorreiaT.D. WilsonThis paper identifies and analyses the factors internal to the organization, which affect the activity of environmental scanning, understood here as the information seeking activity of managers, directed at the company's external environment. These factors include individual factors, such as information consciousness and exposure to information, and organizational factors such as information climate and "outwardness". The main relationships among them are also analysed. These factors were identified in the course of research aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding of the environmental scanning process (<a href="#cor96b">Correia & Wilson, 1996</a>). The methodology used - a case-study approach coupled with the grounded theory method of qualitative analysis - was of major importance in obtaining information that is grounded largely on the personal experience of managers.http://informationr.net/ir/7-1/paper121.htmlenvironmental scanninginformation seekinginformation conciousnessinformation climateindividual exposure to informationorganizational outwardness |
| spellingShingle | Zita Correia T.D. Wilson Factors Influencing Environmental Scanning in the Organizational Context Information Research: An International Electronic Journal environmental scanning information seeking information conciousness information climate individual exposure to information organizational outwardness |
| title | Factors Influencing Environmental Scanning in the Organizational Context |
| title_full | Factors Influencing Environmental Scanning in the Organizational Context |
| title_fullStr | Factors Influencing Environmental Scanning in the Organizational Context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factors Influencing Environmental Scanning in the Organizational Context |
| title_short | Factors Influencing Environmental Scanning in the Organizational Context |
| title_sort | factors influencing environmental scanning in the organizational context |
| topic | environmental scanning information seeking information conciousness information climate individual exposure to information organizational outwardness |
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