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Choo, Chun Wei; Detlor, Brian; Turnbull, Don – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Presents findings from a study of how knowledge workers use the Web to seek external information as part of their daily work. Participants were 34 users from seven companies. Findings suggest that a behavioral framework that relates motivation and moves may be helpful in analysing patterns of Web-based information seeking. (AEF)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Corporations, Information Seeking, Internet
Peer reviewedChoo, 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
Peer reviewedChoo, Chun Wei – Library and Information Science Research, 1994
Reports on a study of the information sources used in environmental scanning by chief executives of the Canadian telecommunications industry that investigated the relationship between perceived source quality and source use and the chief executives' perception and use of the company library and electronic information sources. (Contains 23…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Corporate Libraries, Correlation
Download full textChoo, Chun Wei; Detlor, Brian; Turnbull, Don – 1999
This paper investigates how knowledge workers utilize the Web to seek external information as part of their daily work. Thirty-four participants from seven companies were interviewed about their information needs and preferences. In addition, a custom-developed software application recorded each participant's Web behavior for a two week monitoring…
Descriptors: Behavior, Corporations, Foreign Countries, Information Seeking
Choo, Chun Wei; Detlor, Brian; Turnbull, Don – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Develops and tests a new behavioral model of information seeking on the Web by combining theoretical elements from information science and organization science. Results suggest that a behavioral framework which relates search motivations and moves may be helpful in analyzing Web-based information seeking. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Information Scientists, Information Seeking, Information Sources
Peer reviewedAuster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
A study investigating variables in Canadian Chief Executive Officers' use of information sources to scan external business environments is reported. Findings show that frequency of source use correlates to perceived uncertainty and that source quality is more important than source accessibility--a finding that contradicts past user studies. (28…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administrators, Business, Correlation
Peer reviewedAuster, 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
