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Auster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Proposes a conceptual framework for studying the information-seeking behavior of executives when they scan the business environment. Research in management theory and information science is reviewed, and the principal elements of the framework are discussed, including the environment, acquisition of information, environmental information use,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Information Needs, Information Science, Information Seeking
Auster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1993
Discusses results of the final part of a study of the environmental scanning behavior of chief executive officers in two Canadian industries--publishing and telecommunications. The results of personal interviews were analyzed to determine their main sources of environmental information and how they made use of the information in decision making.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Information Sources
Peer reviewedAuster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Library Trends, 1994
Describes a study that investigated how CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) in the Canadian publishing and telecommunications industries acquire and use information about the business environment. Topics discussed include environmental scanning; perceived environmental uncertainty; information sources; information use in decision making; and a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Environmental Scanning, Foreign Countries
Auster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Reports the preliminary results of a survey of the environmental scanning behavior of 207 chief executive officers (CEOs) in the Canadian publishing and telecommunications industries. Topics addressed include information sources, perceived source accessibility, perceived source quality, and frequency of source use. (16 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Information Seeking
Peer reviewedAuster, Ethel – Education Libraries, 1981
Provides a brief overview of the sources of research production and documentation in education at the national and provincial levels for both governmental and professional organizations in Canada. Names and addresses of seven sources are listed. (CHC)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Federal Aid, Foreign Countries
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
