Please summarize the scanning paper, and include, but not limited to$,$ why a company should scan its periphery, what a firm should look for when doing the scanning, and what questions a firm should ask. If you work for a company, please evaluate the need and capability for environmental scanning and indicate which scanning of the $4$ types describes your company. If you are a full time student, do that for UTRGV. And please find something that is interesting in the paper.