Environmental scanning: An application of information literacy skills at the workplace

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 719-732

  Zhang, Xue ^a   Majid, Shaheen ^a   Foo, Schubert ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

environmental scanning; information literacy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; INFORMATION INTENSIVES; INFORMATION LITERACY; INTEGRATED INFORMATIONS; REFINED MODEL;

SCANNING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 78650099682     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551510385644     Document Type: Article

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