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Das Betriebslagebild. Konstruktdefinition, Abgrenzung und Bezugsrahmen eines Führungsinstruments für den industriellen Mittelstand
[The Operational Situational Picture: Construct Definition, Delimitation, and a Frame of Reference for a Management Instrument in the German Industrial Mittelstand]

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Managers of medium-sized industrial firms have access to more data than ever before, yet they are still regularly surprised by developments whose early indications were already present within their own organisation. Consulting practice answers this problem with the notion of a Lagebild, an operational situational picture borrowed from military and governmental situation assessment. A scientific construct definition is missing at the level of the individual firm, whereas the term is well established in the public- authority domain and even codified in German law. This paper develops one. It rests on an inductive content analysis of seven independently written domain texts, each of which delineates the situational picture against an established instrument: the KPI dashboard, the compliance file, the supplier list, condition monitoring, the age structure report, the CRM system and the portfolio review. The 21 distinguishing dimensions named in these texts reduce to five domain-invariant characteristics: anticipation, assessment, inside-outside coupling, executive addressing with criticality weighting, and continuity. Two further characteristics, action coupling and confidence disclosure, do not stem from the delineations but from the design description, and are therefore reported as more weakly evidenced. The construct is theoretically grounded in Endsley's model of situation awareness, Ansoff's weak signals, Simons' distinction between diagnostic and interactive control systems, and the attention-based view of the firm. A delineation matrix covering ten established instruments shows that none of them satisfies inside-outside coupling and confidence disclosure at the same time. Seven testable propositions are derived from the effectiveness claims made in the practitioner material. The paper offers neither empirical data nor proof of effectiveness; it establishes the conceptual basis on which such proof can first be attempted. Führungskräfte mittelständischer Industrieunternehmen verfügen über mehr Daten als je zuvor und werden dennoch regelmäßig von Entwicklungen überrascht, deren Vorzeichen im eigenen Haus bereits vorlagen. In der Beratungspraxis kursiert für die Antwort auf dieses Problem der Begriff des Lagebildes, übertragen aus der militärischen und behördlichen Lagearbeit. Eine wissenschaftliche Konstruktdefinition fehlt für die einzelbetriebliche Führungsebene bislang, während der Begriff im hoheitlichen Bereich bestimmt und in § 40 Absatz 3 Nummer 3 BSIG sogar gesetzlich verankert ist. Dieses Papier entwickelt sie. Grundlage ist eine induktive Inhaltsanalyse von sieben unabhängig verfassten Domänentexten, in denen das Lagebild jeweils gegen ein etabliertes Instrument abgegrenzt wird: gegen das Kennzahlen- Dashboard, den Compliance-Ordner, die Lieferantenliste, das Condition Monitoring, die Altersstatistik, das CRM und den Portfolio-Review. Aus den 21 dort genannten Unterscheidungsdimensionen lassen sich fünf domäneninvariante Merkmale ableiten: Antizipation, Bewertung, Innen-Außen-Kopplung, Führungsadressierung mit Kritikalitätsgewichtung und Kontinuität. Zwei weitere Merkmale, Handlungskopplung und Belastbarkeitsausweis, stammen nicht aus den Abgrenzungen, sondern aus der Konstruktionsbeschreibung, und werden entsprechend schwächer belegt geführt. Das Konstrukt wird theoretisch an Endsleys Modell der Situation Awareness, Ansoffs Konzept schwacher Signale, Simons' Unterscheidung diagnostischer und interaktiver Steuerungssysteme sowie die aufmerksamkeitsbasierte Sicht auf die Unternehmung zurückgebunden. Eine Abgrenzungsmatrix gegen zehn etablierte Instrumente zeigt, dass keines von ihnen Innen-Außen-Kopplung und Belastbarkeitsausweis zugleich erfüllt. Aus den Wirkungsbehauptungen der Praxisliteratur werden sieben prüfbare Propositionen formuliert. Das Papier liefert keine Empirie und keinen Wirksamkeitsnachweis; es schafft die begriffliche Grundlage, auf der ein solcher Nachweis erst geführt werden kann.

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  • Platvoet, Ralf, 2026. "Das Betriebslagebild. Konstruktdefinition, Abgrenzung und Bezugsrahmen eines Führungsinstruments für den industriellen Mittelstand [The Operational Situational Picture: Construct Definition, Delimitation, and a Frame of Reference for a Management ," MPRA Paper 130917, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
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