Environmental scanning in dynamic contexts: information seeking and
use by bank managers
Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao, 9 (2):
218--229 (December 2004)Portuguese.Abstract
Over the last five decades of the 20th century, the information technologies
evolution has completely transformed the processes of data access,
storage and retrieval. The impacts of the new technologies and the
implications of the shift towards an information-based economy change
the way companies deal with their external environment. In Brazil,
the financial sector � banking, mainly � was one of the most affected,
which has changed radically the way managers scans the external environment.
This paper explores this context in a survey with 65 bank managers
in Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, highlighting the way they
seek and use information