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Motivation and Ability: Unpacking Underperforming Firms’ Risk Taking

Ohad Ref, Songcui Hu, Maxim Milyavsky, Naomi E. Feldman, Zur Shapira

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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
How do managers decide on internationalization processes? The role of organizational slack and performance feedback Wenting Lin · 2013
Adding by Subtracting: The Relationship Between Performance Feedback and Resource Reconfiguration Through Divestitures Elena Vidal, Will Mitchell · 2015
Toward a Model of Risk in Declining Organizations: An Empirical Examination of Risk, Performance and Decline Robert M. Wiseman, Philip Bromiley · 1996
Momentum and Organizational Risk Taking: Evidence from the National Football League David W. Lehman, Jungpil Hahn · 2012
VARIABLE ORGANIZATIONAL RISK PREFERENCES: TESTS OF THE MARCH-SHAPIRA MODEL. Kent D. Miller, Weiru Chen · 2004
Organizational Aspirations, Reference Points, and Goals George A. Shinkle · 2011

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Comparing Aspiration Models: The Role of Selective Attention Mark Washburn, Philip Bromiley · 2011
Adaptive aspirations: performance consequences of risk preferences at extremes and alternative reference groups Songcui Hu, Daniela Blettner, Richard A. Bettis · 2011
The Dynamics of the Performance–Risk Relationship Within a Performance Period: The Moderating Role of Deadline Proximity David W. Lehman et al. · 2011
Perspective—Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School’s Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the Future Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel A. Levinthal, William Ocasio · 2007
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
Driven by aspirations, but in what direction? Performance shortfalls, slack resources, and resource‐consuming vs. resource‐freeing organizational change Pasi Kuusela, Thomas Keil, Markku Maula · 2016
Entering new markets: The effect of performance feedback near aspiration and well below and above it Ohad Ref, Zur Shapira · 2016
Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017
Deviant versus Aspirational Risk Taking: The Effects of Performance Feedback on Bribery Expenditure and R&D Intensity Dean Xu, Kevin Zheng Zhou, Fei Du · 2018
Safe or Profitable? The Pursuit of Conflicting Goals Vibha Gaba, Henrich R. Greve · 2019
Biased interpretation of performance feedback: The role of CEO overconfidence Christian Schumacher, Steffen Keck, Wenjie Tang · 2020
Motivation and Ability? A Behavioral Perspective on the Pursuit of Radical Invention in Multi-Technology Incumbents J. P. Eggers, Aseem Kaul · 2017
Problemistic Search of the Embedded Firm: The Joint Effects of Performance Feedback and Network Positions on Venture Capital Firms’ Risk Taking Songcui Hu, Qian Gu, Jun Xia · 2021
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve · 2003
The Two Blades of the Scissors: Performance Feedback and Intrinsic Attributes in Organizational Risk Taking Xavier Sobrepere i Profitós, Thomas Keil, Pasi Kuusela · 2022

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