Robert C. Schwab’s research while affiliated with Andrews University and other places

... Validation of both the Lawrence and Lorsch's and Duncan's scales using "objective measures of environmental volatility" (Tosi et al., 1973;Downey et al., 1975;Buchko, 1994) were insignificant and gave unsuccessful results. Other studies using Duncan's scale (e.g., Mc-Cabe, 1990;Anderson & Kida, 1985;Koberg & Ungsen, 1987;Brown & Schwab, 1984), reported that it was difficult to generalize their results using Duncan's scale. Thus, next-generation researchers tried to change their focus from the organization's point of view to the perspective of the external environment, as will be discussed next. ...

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Perceived Environmental Uncertainty for Startups: A Note on Entrepreneurship Research from an Indian Perspective

... This study evaluates the impacts of perceived environmental uncertainty and intra-individual goal conflict experienced by SOBs' branch managers on the boundary spanning activities and resource orchestration which they do to improve the performance of their branch offices. Several previous studies on this topic have found a link between perceived environmental uncertainty and boundary spanning activities (Leifer and Huber 1977;Leifer and Delbecq 1978;Schwab et al. 1985;At-Twaijri and Montanari, 1987); between perceived environmental uncertainty and resource orchestration (Ahuja and Chan 2017; Badrinarayanan et al. 2018;Choi et al. 2020;Chen and Tian 2022;Temouri et al. 2022); and between resource orchestration and perceived organizational performance (Wales et al. 2013;Miao et al. 2017;Tuo-Chen and Qiao 2017;Peat and Permann-Graham 2020;Kristoffersen et al. 2021). Furthermore, previous studies only examine the indirect impacts of intra-individual goal conflict on boundary spanning activities (Schotter and Beamish 2011), indirect impacts of intraindividual goal conflict on resource orchestration (Omotosho and Anyigba 2019), and indirect impacts of boundary spanning activities on resource orchestration (Merindol and Versailles 2018). ...

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The impact of boundary spanning activities and resource orchestration in improving performance of Indonesian state-owned bank branches