Scanning the technological component and its relation to organizational and managerial variables
An exploratory study
Keywords:
Scanning, environment, technological component, uncertainty, managementAbstract
Scanning the environment is an extremely relevant activity for the long-term operation of organizations. In particular, scanning the technological component holds a statistically significant relationship with a higher organizational performance level. The purpose of this article was to identify a set of activities to scan the technological component and their relation to an organizational and a managerial variable. To this end, we interviewed a group of top and mid-level managers at twenty companies located in Bogota, Colombia. The study concluded that the organizational variable has a statistically significant relationship to the implementation of scanning activities. There was, however, no evidence of a statistically significant relationship between scanning activities and managerial variables.
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13. DOWNEY, H.; Slocum, J. Environmental Uncertainty: The Construct and Its Application. In: Administrative Science Quarterly. Vol. 20, No.4 (1975); p. 613-629.
14. EBRAHIMI, B. Perceived Strategic Uncertainty and Environmental Scanning Behavior of Hong Kong Chinese Executives. In: Journal of Business Research. Vol. 49 (2000); p. 67–77.
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Scanning the technological component and its relation to organizational and managerial variables: An exploratory study. (2017). Entramado, 9(2), 56-67. https://revistas.unilibre.edu.co/index.php/entramado/article/view/3463
