<p>Background: Increasing globalization makes companies more influenced than before by actors and factors in their environment. For some this has lead to a more dynamic and complicated business context. Therefore it is of strategic importance to understand what is currently going on as well as to have a general idea of what the future brings. </p><p>Purpose: To contribute to a deeper understanding of how a corporate management can perceive its business environment and how it affects he gathering of business information from a strategic perspective. </p><p>Realisation: In-depth interviews were conducted with all four members of the management in the studied company, Volvo Competence Center in Skovde, Sweden.</p><p> Conclusions: The company's business context was perceived predominantely congruently by the management. Business intelligence was found to be linked mostly to personal areas of resposibility. A model was produced to show the connection between perception of environment and gathering of business information, and VCC was applied in this model.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:liu-1726 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Strömkvist, Olof, Zouaoui, Samir |
| Publisher | Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, Ekonomiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
| Relation | Magisteruppsats från Internationella ekonomprogrammet, ; 2003:35 |
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