Reconsidering the strategic implications of decision comprehensiveness

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Forbes, Daniel P.
• 署名单位: University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 361-376
• 关键词: ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMISM; ambiguity; rationality; management; industry; performance; uncertainty; COMMITMENT

摘要

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.