ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING: THE EFFECTS OF TASK COMPLEXITY AND SOURCE ACCESSIBILITY ON INFORMATION GATHERING BEHAVIOR

Decision Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 194-206

  Culnan, Mary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information Processing; Management Information Systems; Organization and Management Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989416134     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1983.tb00180.x     Document Type: Article

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