Environmental Scanning Behavior in a Transitional Economy: Evidence From Russia.

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Predictors of Individual Knowledge Acquisition Commitment in a Post-Soviet Setting

“…this assumption, however, does not acknowledge the potential of the institutional context to influence individuals' perceptions of the environment (DiMaggio and Powell 1983;Miller 1993;sallivan and Nonaka 1988;Schneider and De Myer 1991). For instance, studies of environmental scanning behavior in the post-Soviet context indicate that, unlike their Western counterparts, managers in Bulgaria (elenkov 1997) and Russia (May et al 2000) did not increase the frequency of scanning for information despite a perceived increase in strategic uncertainty in the environment. Moreover, more recent evidence from Russia indicates that employees may not fully understand the link between knowledge and competitiveness .…”

Strategic orientation of high-technology firms in a transitional economy

“…Garg, Walters, and Priem (2003) noted that environmental scanning emphases have impacts on the sales growth of firms. In a study of Russian executives, May et al (2000) suggest that environmental scanning behavior is important for firm performance in a transitional economy.…”

“…These managerial cognition findings also suggest that managers in transitional economies are more short-term oriented in the sense that their strategic orientations are driven more by environmental opportunities than by organizational competencies. They believe stronger in environmental determinism rather than in environmental voluntarism (Lau, 1998;May et al, 2000).…”

“…Very few of them examine how strategies are developed. Nevertheless, the managerial cognitions studies help to understand the process of strategy development by examining how managers come to understand the business environment (Dutton et al, 1989;May et al, 2000;Walsh, 1995). Strategic orientation is a major theme of this line of investigation (Durand and Coeurderoy, 2001).…”

Total quality management, market orientation and hotel performance: The moderating effects of external environmental factors

“…As a result, organizational decision making is influenced by environmental complexity and volatility (May et al, 2000). Organization attempting to ignore environmental factors or that refuses to respond to such factors create trouble for themselves and placing themselves at a competitive disadvantage.…”