Uncertainty and Information Search Activities: A Study of Owner–Managers of Small High‐Technology Manufacturing Firms

By Jeffrey E. Mcgee, Olukemi O. Sawyerr. 2003

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Are perseverance and self‐efficacy costless? Assessing entrepreneurs' regretful thinking (2005, background): “To address environmental uncertainty, entrepreneurs rely on personal and external information whereas managers rely more heavily on internal and impersonal information (McGee & Sawyerr, 2003).”
Signaling the Strategic Value of Knowledge (2004, background): “Perceived environmental uncertainty refers to the absence of sufficient information about activities and events within an environment and the inability to predict changes in these factors (McGee & Sawyerr, 2003).”
The Impact of Knowledge Resources on New Venture Performance (2009, background): “In order to resolve uncertainty owners of young firms rely more heavily on external networks than do managers of older firms (McGee and Sawyer 2003), which is generative of both tacit and explicit knowledge that is helpful for the venture (Chrisman and McMullen 2004).”
Consumer adoption of technological innovations: Effects of psychological and functional barriers in a lack of content versus a presence of content situation (2010, background): “Furthermore, research in entrepreneurship suggests that under high level of uncertainty and change, entrepreneurs tend to rely on internal/personal information rather than on external/societal information ( McGee and Sawyer, 2003”
Entrepreneurial skills assessment: an exploratory study (2007, background): “McGee and Sawyer (2003) found that successful business expansion depended upon monitoring the external environment because of rapid advances in technology, accelerated globalization, and greater competitive intensity which have increased the general level of uncertainty they face.”
Entrepreneurial alertness as a pathway to strategic decisions and organizational performance (2018, background): “For example, “From newspapers, trade magazines, and other external information sources” (McGee and Sawyerr, 2003; Pineda et al., 1998).”