Abstract As an interdisciplinary research field, environmental scanning has attracted the attention of many academic schools and provides diversified research perspectives and contents. To address the lack of systematic combing or integration frameworks in environmental scanning research, based on the grounded theory method, this study encoded the research content of relevant literature to obtain 154 primary codes and 17 focused codes, from which six research themes were extracted: environmental context, organizational characteristics, personal characteristics, environmental scanning, organizational capability, and organizational output. Based on a systematic review of the relationship between research themes, a theoretical analysis framework of “antecedent-process-mechanism-output” (A-P-M-O) is constructed. Finally, combined with the theoretical and practical problems of organizational environment scanning in China, agendas that should be given attention in the future are identified with the hope of providing theoretical reference for further research and environmental scanning practices.
Shen Tao. Research Review and Integrated Framework Construction for Environmental Scanning: An Exploration Based on Grounded Theory[J]. 情报学报, 2020, 39(12): 1305-1319.
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