TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconsidering the strategic implications of decision comprehensiveness
AU - Forbes, Daniel P.
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - A key question in strategy is whether comprehensiveness enables firms to make better strategic decisions in various environments. I identify two problems hindering efforts to answer this question: past studies have generally theorized about a different dependent variable than they have measured, and they have conflated the concepts of uncertainty, ambiguity, and instability in accounting for environmental moderation. I then reframe the question and propose ways of characterizing organizational information environments so researchers can identify more precisely those real-world contexts across which the value of comprehensiveness varies. Copyright of the Academy of Management, all rights reserved.
AB - A key question in strategy is whether comprehensiveness enables firms to make better strategic decisions in various environments. I identify two problems hindering efforts to answer this question: past studies have generally theorized about a different dependent variable than they have measured, and they have conflated the concepts of uncertainty, ambiguity, and instability in accounting for environmental moderation. I then reframe the question and propose ways of characterizing organizational information environments so researchers can identify more precisely those real-world contexts across which the value of comprehensiveness varies. Copyright of the Academy of Management, all rights reserved.
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U2 - 10.5465/AMR.2007.24349585
DO - 10.5465/AMR.2007.24349585
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34247492530
SN - 0363-7425
VL - 32
SP - 361
EP - 376
JO - Academy of Management Review
JF - Academy of Management Review
IS - 2
ER -