This study examines a hierarchy of adaptive latitude and the influence them in a progressive hierarchy. A second purpose was to investigate the extent to which environmental and organizaof environmental, organizational and managerial characteristics on firm adaptation across three industries (aerospace, electronic components, and tional factors, along with personal characteristics of managers, limit or favor efforts of policy makers to adapt. Although paper products). Results show that environmental characteristics had the greatest impact on adaptive latitude, followed by organizational characterstrategic choice theorists and population ecologists differ about which is the most important or powerful set, researchers istics
