2013 Aspirations & reference points

LEARNING FROM PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION, ASPIRATION LEVELS, AND MANAGERIAL PRIORITIES

Poul Aaes Nielsen

Public Administration

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From One Empirical Study to 150 Henrich R. Greve · 2021
Search in Response to Negative Performance Feedback: Problem-Definition and Solution-Generation Joris van der Voet · 2022
How Do Public Managers Learn from Performance Information? Experimental Evidence on Problem Focus, Innovative Search, and Change Jesper Asring Jessen Hansen, Poul Aaes Nielsen · 2022
Manager and employee behaviors in response to performance signals in public organizations Taek Kyu Kim · 2023
Performance Measurement System Design as Link Between Strategy Formulation and Performance Information Use in Public Sector Organizations Åge Johnsen, Kerstin Solholm, Per Arne Tufte · 2024
Women hold up the shattering sky? Performance feedback on multiple conflicting goals and women’s representation in top management teams in the public sector Ting Huang · 2024
Hidden Costs of Performance Management: When Performance Feedback Encourages Gaming and Dysfunctional Behaviors Suho Ji, Sounman Hong · 2025
Beyond tradeoffs: How Do Local Governments Synergize Multiple Complementary Goals? Siyao Zhu, Hongshuai Wang, Pan Zhang · 2025
‘Profiting from at least one side’: goal conflict, performance feedback, and data manipulation Chengwei Wang, Liang Ma · 2025
Hanging in the Balance: Assessing Goal Prioritization Among Street-Level Bureaucrats Amanda Rutherford, Shaun Khurana · 2026
When goals waltz together: how (in)consistent performance feedback on multiple complementary goals affects performance improvements in the public sector Shaowei Chen et al. · 2025
Alleviating or aggravating? How patronage ties moderate the impacts of performance feedback on data manipulation in public performance management Shaowei Chen · 2026
Beyond problemistic search: a contingency perspective on organizational response to performance feedback Taek Kyu Kim, Weijie Wang · 2026
Searching near and far? Search distance and performance below historical and social aspirations Catarina Antunes Mantas, Joris van der Voet, Amandine Lerusse · 2026

References 5

A Behavioral Theory of Firm Growth: Sequential Attention to Size and Performance Goals Henrich R. Greve · 2008
A Behavioral Model of Innovative Search: Evidence from Public Hospital Services Torsten Oliver Salge · 2010
Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm William J. Baumöl, Richard M. Cyert, J. G. March · 1964
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve · 2003

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Why Performance Information Use Varies Among Public Managers: Testing Manager-Related Explanations Alexander Kroll · 2014

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Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008

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