Factors influencing environmental scanning in the organizational context

Information Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Correia, Zita ^a   Wilson, T D ^b  

^a Natl Inst of Eng/Indust Technol   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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