Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad

Environmental Scanning and Investment Decision Quality

An Information Processing Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a dynamic environment, scanning becomes critically important when making decisions, particularly capital investment decisions. This book will discuss on environmental scanning behavior of Investment decision maker. Empirical test was done to 118 decision maker in Malaysia and found that only technology, economic and competition information was scanned by Malaysian manager in making capital investment decision. They scan for information at a moderate level, using both formal and informal methods and various sources (both personal and impersonal) of information. Limited relationships were observed between scanning behavior and investment decision quality. Regression analysis show that the quality of decision is positively and significantly related to extent of economic and competition information and formality of method used to scan competition information. Information processing capacity was found to be a quasi moderator, thus having a direct as well as an interaction effect ondecision quality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9783843359870
• ISBN-10: 3843359873
• Artikelnr.: 32070091

Autorenporträt

Le Dr Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad est professeur associé de finance à l'Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kelantan, Malaisie ; Kahartini Abd Rahman est chargé de cours de mathématiques à l'UiTM, Shah Alam et actuellement détaché au poste de responsable de la gestion des projets au ministère de l'enseignement supérieur ; le Dr Ng Siew Foen est actuellement maître de conférences à l'Universiti Teknologi Mara Kelantan.