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The Paradox of Stretch Goals: Organizations in Pursuit of the Seemingly Impossible

Sim B. Sitkin, Kelly E. See, C. Chet Miller, Michael W. Lawless, Andrew M. Carton

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VARIABLE ORGANIZATIONAL RISK PREFERENCES: TESTS OF THE MARCH-SHAPIRA MODEL. Kent D. Miller, Weiru Chen · 2004
Managerial reasoning about aspirations and expectations Theresa K. Lant, Zur Shapira · 2008
Aspiration-Level Adaptation in an American Financial Services Organization: A Field Study Stephen J. Mezias, Ya-Ru Chen, Patrice Murphy · 2002
Aspiration Level Adaptation: An Empirical Exploration Theresa K. Lant · 1992
Aspiration Performance and Railroads’ Patterns of Learning from Train Wrecks and Crashes Joel A. C. Baum, Kristina Dahlin · 2007
Disrupted Routines: Team Learning and New Technology Implementation in Hospitals Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Gary P. Pisano · 2001
Near-Term Liability of Exploitation: Exploration and Exploitation in Multistage Problems Christina Fang, Daniel A. Levinthal · 2009
Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998

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Richard M. Cyert & James G. March, A Behavioral Theory of The Firm, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1963, 332 s. Erik Johnsen · 1964
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve · 2003
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm Richard H. Day et al. · 1964

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