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Choo, Chun Wei; Auster, Ethel – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1993
Defines environmental scanning as the acquisition and use of information about an organization's external environment to assist managers in planning. Highlights include a historical review; organizational theories; information needs and uses; managers as information users; and a review of research on environmental scanning. (Contains 124…
Descriptors: Administrators, Environmental Scanning, Information Needs, Information Utilization