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SPECIALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING ACTIVITIES AMONG UPPER LEVEL EXECUTIVES
Author(s) -
Hambrick Donald C.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1981.tb00104.x
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , business , marketing , optics , physics
The purpose of this paper is to introduce new evidence of the extent to which, and circumstances under which, upper‐level executives specialize their environmental scanning activities according to their hierarchical levels and functional areas. Results suggest that neither of these two role variables is closely or consistently related to the focus or overall amount of scanning. Patterns differed across the three industries studied.