%0 Journal Article
%T Diferen£¿as na atividade de monitoramento de informa£¿£¿es do ambiente externo em pequenas e m¨¦dias empresas: a influ¨ºncia do porte e da idade
%A Cancellier
%A ¨¦verton Lu¨ªs Pellizzaro de Lorenzi
%A Alberton
%A Anete
%A Barbosa
%A Anielson
%J Perspectivas em Ci¨ºncia da Informa£¿£¿o
%D 2011
%I Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
%R 10.1590/S1413-99362011000200011
%X this paper aims to study the scanning of strategic information from the external environment in small business and the relevance of this lies in the fact that the studies about scanning in small companies are still incipient in brazil. it's a survey study, with application of questionnaire to executives of 188 companies. in data analysis, we used the technique of analysis of variance of group means. the results indicated that small businesses prefer to scan some aspects from environment and were found major differences in the frequency of scanning in relation to the age of firms than in terms of size.
%K scanning
%K strategic information
%K external environment
%K small and medium enterprises.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-99362011000200011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en