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Auster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Library Trends, 1994
Describes a study that investigated how CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) in the Canadian publishing and telecommunications industries acquire and use information about the business environment. Topics discussed include environmental scanning; perceived environmental uncertainty; information sources; information use in decision making; and a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Environmental Scanning, Foreign Countries

Auster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Reports on a study of how 13 chief executives in the Canadian publishing and telecommunications industries scan their environments for information and use it in decision making. Critical incidents of information use were analyzed according to their environmental sectors, information sources, and their use in decision making. (Contains 27…
Descriptors: Administrators, Competition, Decision Making, Environmental Scanning