Open AccessStrategic Response Hierarchies as Reaction to Environmental Threat
Author(s) -
Marshall Schminke
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of business strategies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2162-6901
pISSN - 0887-2058
DOI - 10.54155/jbs.11.1.19-35
Subject(s) - order (exchange) , process management , business , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , environmental resource management , management science , economics , finance
To perform effectively, an organization must match its capabilities to its constantlychanging environment. However, little research focuses on the dynamic processes by whichorganizations make these adaptive decisions. This research develops and tests a hierarchicalmodel of organizational response to environmental threat. It suggests that organizationsinvoke preexisting sets of response programs to deal with familiar threats, andthat these programs emerge in a predictable, hierarchical order.