The organizational environment with its measures, antecedents, and consequences: A review and research agenda
Meinhardt, Ralf ; Junge, Sebastian ; Weiss, Martin
Meinhardt, Ralf
Junge, Sebastian
Weiss, Martin
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2018
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Management Review Quarterly
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68
Publication Issue
2
Publication Begin page
195
Publication End page
235
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Abstract
The organizational environment is a focal element of multifaceted managerial decisions. Consequently, research has shown a long lasting and still growing interest in investigating the organizational environment and understanding its impact on a firm. Because it is widely assumed that the business environment will become more dynamic, changes in the organizational environment have drawn the particular attention of many scholars. While the extant research has established valuable knowledge, its fragmentation due to differing definitions and contradictory findings calls for a broad review to establish a foundation for future research. By analyzing 279 studies that have investigated different aspects of the organizational environment between 1958 and mid-2017, we contribute to various research streams that involve this environmental factor. We use a comprehensive research framework to categorize and review the previous work. In particular, we distinguish between studies that define or measure the organizational environment, as well as studies that investigate antecedents, outcomes, and moderating effects of the organizational environments. Among those categories, we discuss our findings, before subsequently synthesizing existing works and deriving an agenda for future research.
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Organizational Environment, Uncertainty, Dynamism, Complexity, Munificence