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Institutional History, Negative Performance Feedback, and R&D Search: A Nexus of the Imprinting and Behavioral Perspectives

Lakshmi Goyal

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New product introductions below aspirations, slack and R&D alliances: A behavioral perspective Beverly B. Tyler, Turanay Caner · 2015
A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations Philip Bromiley, Jared D. Harris · 2013
Performance Feedback, Slack, and The Timing of Acquisitions Dinesh N. Iyer, Kent D. Miller · 2008
Situational and institutional determinants of firms' R&D search intensity Weiru Chen, Kent D. Miller · 2007
Constrained Growth: How Experience, Legitimacy, and Age Influence Risk Taking in Organizations Vinit M. Desai · 2008
Managerial reasoning about aspirations and expectations Theresa K. Lant, Zur Shapira · 2008
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

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Performance Feedback and Firm Risk Taking: The Moderating Effects of CEO and Outside Director Stock Options Elizabeth Lim, Brian T. McCann · 2013
Business Group Affiliation and Firm Search Behavior in India: Responsiveness and Focus of Attention Balagopal Vissa, Henrich R. Greve, Weiru Chen · 2009
The impact of current and founding institutions on strength of competitive aspirations in transition economies George A. Shinkle, Aldas Kriauciunas · 2011
Microfoundations of Management: Behavioral Strategies and Levels of Rationality in Organizational Action Henrich R. Greve · 2013
Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008
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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
Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017
Dominant Coalitions Directing Acquisitions: Different Decision Makers, Different Decisions Cyndi Man Zhang, Henrich R. Greve · 2018
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
Problem-Solving or Self-Enhancement? A Power Perspective on How CEOs Affect R&D Search in the Face of Inconsistent Feedback Radina R. Blagoeva et al. · 2019
The Role of Attribution in Learning from Performance Feedback: Behavioral Perspective on the Choice between Alliances and Acquisitions Jaemin Lee, Joon Mahn Lee, Ji‐Yub Kim · 2021
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects Giovanni Gavetti et al. · 2012
A Behavioral Theory of R&D Expenditures and Innovations: Evidence from Shipbuilding Henrich R. Greve · 2003
Is there a strategic organization in the behavioral theory of the firm? Looking back and looking forward Henrich R. Greve, Cyndi Man Zhang · 2022
How the ghosts of past experience haunt problemistic search Joseph J. Cabral, Dinesh N. Iyer, Jonathan O’Brien · 2023
How strategic alliances shape problemistic search intensity: Evidence from responses to social and historical underperformance Jake Duke et al. · 2024

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