2025 Aspirations & reference points

Patents, trade secrets and performance aspirations in family firms

Katrin Hussinger, Wunnam Basit Issah

Journal of Business Research

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References 13

New product introductions below aspirations, slack and R&D alliances: A behavioral perspective Beverly B. Tyler, Turanay Caner · 2015
Risk abatement as a strategy for R&D investments in family firms Pankaj C. Patel, James J. Chrisman · 2013
A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations Philip Bromiley, Jared D. Harris · 2013
A Behavioral Theory of Firm Growth: Sequential Attention to Size and Performance Goals Henrich R. Greve · 2008
Long–Term Orientation in Publicly Traded Family Businesses: Evidence of a Dominant Logic Richard J. Gentry, Clay Dibrell, Jaemin Kim · 2014
Variations in R&D Investments of Family and Nonfamily Firms: Behavioral Agency and Myopic Loss Aversion Perspectives James J. Chrisman, Pankaj C. Patel · 2012
Executive Stock Options as Mixed Gambles: Revisiting the Behavioral Agency Model Geoffrey Martin, Luis R. Gómez‐Mejía, Robert M. Wiseman · 2013
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm William J. Baumöl, Richard M. Cyert, J. G. March · 1964

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Entering new markets: The effect of performance feedback near aspiration and well below and above it Ohad Ref, Zur Shapira · 2016
Firm Acquisitions by Family Firms: A Mixed Gamble Approach Katrin Hussinger, Abdul-Basit Issah · 2019
PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK, SLACK, AND THE TIMING OF ACQUISITIONS. Dinesh N. Iyer, Kent D. Miller · 2008
How historical and social aspirations reshape the relationship between corporate financial performance and corporate social responsibility Charalampos Saridakis, Sofia Angelidou, Arch G. Woodside · 2023
Performance below and above aspirations as an antecedent of succession planning in family firms: A socio-emotional wealth mixed gamble approach Ine Umans et al. · 2024

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Firm Acquisitions by Family Firms: A Mixed Gamble Approach Katrin Hussinger, Abdul-Basit Issah · 2019

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The Mixed Gamble of Competitive Dynamics in Family‐Controlled Firms Jaeyoung Cho, Alfredo De Massis, Josip Kotlar · 2025

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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

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Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter? Michele Pinelli et al. · 2024

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Family Firms’ Shareholder Structure and International Acquisitions: A Differentiated Socioemotional Wealth Approach Andrea Calabrò et al. · 2024

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Managerial Risk Taking Robert E. Hoskisson et al. · 2016

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The mixed gamble of internationalization in family and nonfamily firms: The moderating role of organizational slack Todd M. Alessandri, Daniele Cerrato, Kimberly Eddleston · 2018

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Profitability Goals, Control Goals, and the R&D Investment Decisions of Family and Nonfamily Firms Josip Kotlar et al. · 2014

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How negative aspiration performance gaps affect innovation efficiency Montserrat Manzaneque Lizano et al. · 2018

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Variations in R&D Investments of Family and Nonfamily Firms: Behavioral Agency and Myopic Loss Aversion Perspectives James J. Chrisman, Pankaj C. Patel · 2012

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Strategic reference points in family firms Josip Kotlar et al. · 2014

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Performance below and above aspirations as an antecedent of succession planning in family firms: A socio-emotional wealth mixed gamble approach Ine Umans et al. · 2024

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Organizational Goals: Antecedents, Formation Processes and Implications for Firm Behavior and Performance Josip Kotlar et al. · 2018

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Inconsistent performance feedback and firm internationalization: Can CEOs remove the haze? Anita Kerai, Nycil George · 2025

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When do firms change technology‐sourcing vehicles? The role of poor innovative performance and financial slack Razvan Lungeanu, Ithai Stern, Edward J. Zajac · 2015

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The behavioral agency model: Revised concepts and implications for operations and supply chain research Luis R. Gómez‐Mejía et al. · 2021

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Attention to market expansion: Aspirational antecedent and risk-taking consequence Renfei Gao et al. · 2025

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CEO option wealth and firm risk-taking: An analysis of multiple reference points Elizabeth Lim · 2017

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Performance Feedback and Risk‐Taking: A Configurational Approach Lakshmi Goyal, Manish Popli · 2023

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Fight or flight? Understanding family firm internationalization when the rules of the game change Ivan Miroshnychenko, Kimberly Eddleston, Alfredo De Massis · 2023

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