Environmental scanning, the radar to detect environmental signals, is serving as an effective way for organizations to cope with uncertainties and formulate adaptive strategies. Strategists and strategic management scholars also believe that effective environmental scanning would help organizations to achieve better alignment with rapidly changing external factors and hence improve their perfor...

Purpose: The purpose of the present study is to investigate the characteristics of external environment of companies in the second industrial area of Ahvaz and its effect on managers' environmental scanning behavior in using information resources. Method: An analytic survey method is used to analyze the relationship between variables. Findings: The findings showed that managers' perception of v...

With the present analysis the authors propose an approach for determining an adequate discount rate in environmental management problems, more specifically radioactive waste management. It is shown that the classical Black-Scholes pricing formula can be used for determining the adequate present funding to be set aside for the future. The average funding is equal to the net present value (NPV) o...

E research considers the IT governance choice to be a trade-off between the cost-efficiency of centralization and the responsiveness provided by local information processing. This view predicts that firms tend to decentralize IT governance in more uncertain environments. We investigate this issue by studying the relationship between environmental uncertainty and IT infrastructure governance in ...

Uncertainty is an inherent part of impact assessment (IA), and can vary in type source. However, according to previous research, uncertainty rarely explicitly acknowledged handled IA, indicating that it a challenging issue practice. This paper adds the current research body study EIA Greenland, which includes document reports as well white papers summaries from public hearings. The findings are...

The distant and impersonal nature of e-commerce (EC) and the unpredictability of the Internet infrastructure generate an implicit uncertainty around online transactions. Moreover, customer repeat purchasing is critical to the e-commerce vendor’s survival and success. However, few studies explain online repeat purchase from an uncertainty perspective. The purpose of this study is to propose a co...