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Choice and determinism: A comment
Author(s) -
Bedeian Arthur G.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
strategic management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 11.035
H-Index - 286
eISSN - 1097-0266
pISSN - 0143-2095
DOI - 10.1002/smj.4250110707
Subject(s) - finch , perspective (graphical) , adaptation (eye) , determinism , sociology , epistemology , positive economics , computer science , economics , psychology , artificial intelligence , ecology , philosophy , neuroscience , biology
This note comments on Lawless and Finch's (1989) empirical test of Hrebiniak and Joyce's (1985) framework of business‐environment relations. In doing so it extends Lawless and Finch's reasoning through the explicit incorporation of an interactionist perspective. A model is presented that amplifies the prevailing organizational adaptation logic by assigning a role to organizational learning and by suggesting how organizations act on environmental information vis‐à‐vis symbolic processes and environmental management strategies.