Reconceptualizing executive environmental scanning and search: Implications for international leadership research and practice
ISBN: 978-1-84855-256-2, eISBN: 978-1-84855-257-9
Publication date: 15 July 2009
Abstract
This chapter attempts to reinvigorate scholarly interest in executive scanning by outlining a model to guide future research on executive search within the context of international strategy. Executive scanning has received considerable empirical attention but only limited theoretical attention. Most of this research has studied scanning as the receipt rather than the search for information. Based on the application of learning theory, we outline a model advancing two broad categories of executive search exploitative and explorative, consisting of six specific search behaviors. We advance search as integral to managerial decisions relating to the various aspects of internationalization, notably choice of location, corporate strategy, and mode of entry. The implications for future research are presented.
Citation
Heavey, C., Mowday, R.T., Kelly, A. and Roche, F. (2009), "Reconceptualizing executive environmental scanning and search: Implications for international leadership research and practice", Mobley, W.H., Wang, Y. and Li, M. (Ed.) Advances in Global Leadership (Advances in Global Leadership, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 65-92. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1535-1203(2009)0000005007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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