Designs for Environmental Scanning Systems: Tests of a Contingency Theory
比较了有效与无效环境扫描系统的组织在扫描设计与组织情境匹配上的差异，基于北美100多家企业的数据，发现有效系统更注重情境匹配。
This study compared the relationships between organizational context and the designs of environmental scanning systems for organizational with effective and ineffective scanning systems. The study analyzed data from over 100 North American business organizations. Results indicate that organizations with effective scanning systems tend to align their scanning designs with the requirements of their context. On the other hand, the results show that organizations with ineffective scanning systems typically fail to exhibit the requisite level of alignment between contexts and scanning design.