Managerial Information Acquisition and The World Wide Web: A Theoretical Background

Why would managers choose to acquire information from the world wide web? In attempting to answer this question researchers are likely to be guided by theories which match information requirements to the type of task, theories of information retrieval, theories of the properties of information, and information channel selection theories. This is a complex theory base for a research project. This paper provides a review of these theories and then speculates about how the web may be used by

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