Paper Info
Title
UK executives' vision on business environment for information scanning: a cross industry study
Abstract
Business environment scanning contributes a great deal to strategic intelligence gathering. However, earlier studies treat the business environment as a single entity. This study based on a multi-industry survey examined how UK executives perceive the stability of the business environment in which their companies operate, and what environmental sectors are perceived more strategically important than others for information scanning. The effort reveals that UK executives perceive the immediate-task environment information more strategically important than far-general environment information, but the perception of far environment information differs widely from industry to industry. A corporate "radar" system for business environment scanning is proposed to offer practical guidance. Our conclusion is that industry-specific environment sectors should be identified for strategic information scanning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S0378-7206(02)00045-9
Information & Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
industry-specific environment sector,strategic intelligence gathering,far environment information,strategic information,far-general environment information,uk executive,business environment,cross industry study,environmental sector,immediate-task environment information,earlier study,information processing,business information systems,environmental scanning
Management information systems,Information processing,Strategic intelligence,Context analysis,Knowledge management,Engineering,Strategic information system,Business transformation,Line of business,Perception,Marketing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
5
0378-7206
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.93
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xianzhong M. Xu1140.93
G. Roland Kaye2373.53
Yanqing Duan327728.20