2021 Aspirations & reference points

How do managerial perceptions of performance feedback affect innovation?

Nilesh Saraf, Srabana Dasgupta, Daniela Blettner

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Content and process: organizational conflict and decision making Vibha Gaba, John Joseph · 2023
Sociopolitical and financial goals in state-owned manufacturers' expansion of production capacity: evidence from China Renfei Gao et al. · 2024
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A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations Philip Bromiley, Jared D. Harris · 2013
Adaptive aspirations and performance heterogeneity: Attention allocation among multiple reference points Daniela Blettner et al. · 2014
Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners Joel A. C. Baum et al. · 2005
Performance Feedback, Slack, and The Timing of Acquisitions Dinesh N. Iyer, Kent D. Miller · 2008
Reluctant to change: Self-enhancing responses to diverging performance measures Pino G. Audia, Sébastien Brion · 2006
Situational and institutional determinants of firms' R&D search intensity Weiru Chen, Kent D. Miller · 2007
Knowing Your Place: Social Performance Feedback in Good Times and Bad Times Thomas P. Moliterno et al. · 2014
A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF R&D EXPENDITURES AND INNOVATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM SHIPBUILDING. Henrich R. Greve · 2003

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Sticky Aspirations: Organizational Time Perspective and Competitiveness Henrich R. Greve · 2002
Short- and Long-Term Performance Feedback and Absorptive Capacity Chanan Ben-Oz, Henrich R. Greve · 2012
Self-Enhancement and Learning from Performance Feedback Alexander Jordan, Pino G. Audia · 2012
Aspiration-Level Adaptation in an American Financial Services Organization: A Field Study Stephen J. Mezias, Ya-Ru Chen, Patrice Murphy · 2002
Less Likely to Fail: Low Performance, Firm Size, and Factory Expansion in the Shipbuilding Industry Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2006
All Aspirations are not Created Equal: The Differential Effects of Historical and Social Aspirations on Acquisition Behavior Ji‐Yub Kim, Sydney Finkelstein, Jerayr Haleblian · 2014
The impact of current and founding institutions on strength of competitive aspirations in transition economies George A. Shinkle, Aldas Kriauciunas · 2011
Contradictory yet Coherent? Inconsistency in Performance Feedback and R&D Investment Change Gerardus J. M. Lucas, Joris Knoben, Marius T.H. Meeus · 2015
CEO Ambivalence and Responses to Strategic Issues Nils Plambeck, Klaus Weber · 2009
Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008
Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998
Explaining the Selection of Routines for Change during Organizational Search Amit Nigam, Ruthanne Huising, Brian Golden · 2016
Self-Assessment, Self-Enhancement, and the Choice of Comparison Organizations for Evaluating Organizational Performance Pino G. Audia, Sébastien Brion, Henrich R. Greve · 2015
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Performance Feedback in Hierarchical Business Groups: The Cross-Level Effects of Cognitive Accessibility on R&D Search Behavior Luke Rhee, William Ocasio, Tae-Hyun Kim · 2019
Multiple Organization Goals with Feedback from Shared Technological Task Environments Songcui Hu, Richard A. Bettis · 2018
How does inconsistent negative performance feedback affect the R&D investments of firms? A study of publicly listed firms David Diwei Lv et al. · 2019
Organizational responses to performance feedback: A meta-analytic review Serhan Kotiloglu, Yan Chen, Thomas Lechler · 2019
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects Giovanni Gavetti et al. · 2012
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve · 2003
PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK, SLACK, AND THE TIMING OF ACQUISITIONS. Dinesh N. Iyer, Kent D. Miller · 2008

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