A Contingency-Based View of Chief Executive Officers’ Early Warning Behavior An Empirical Analysis of German Medium-Sized Companies /

• Main Author: Kirschkamp, Andreas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2008.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Leadership.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

Organizations need to identify risks and chances of environmental changes in order to adapt to or possibly even to influence them. Early warning which comprises scanning and interpretation plays an important role in this process. Whereas the traditional contingency approach considers early warning a...

Table of Contents:

• Understanding of Early Warning in Literature and Definition of Important Terms
• Contingency Theory as an Approach to Explain Early Warning Behavior
• Deduction of Hypotheses
• Operationalization of the Research Model
• Methodological Conception of the Analysis
• Results of the Empirical Analysis
• Final Thoughts and Outlook.