2014 Aspirations & reference points

Strategic reference points in family firms

Josip Kotlar, Alfredo De Massis, Hanqing Fang, Federico Frattini

Small Business Economics

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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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Self‐Assessment versus Self‐Improvement Motives: How Does Social Reference Group Selection Influence Organizational Responses to Performance Feedback? Daniela Blettner, Serhan Kotiloglu, Thomas Lechler · 2023
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Is LGBT inclusion motivated by organizational performance? Exploring the relationships between performance feedback and LGBT inclusion in firms Serhan Kotiloglu, Aaron T. McDonald · 2023
Inconsistent performance feedback and firm internationalization: Can CEOs remove the haze? Anita Kerai, Nycil George · 2025

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Risk abatement as a strategy for R&D investments in family firms Pankaj C. Patel, James J. Chrisman · 2013
Toward a Model of Risk in Declining Organizations: An Empirical Examination of Risk, Performance and Decline Robert M. Wiseman, Philip Bromiley · 1996
A Behavioral Theory of Firm Growth: Sequential Attention to Size and Performance Goals Henrich R. Greve · 2008
A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF R&D EXPENDITURES AND INNOVATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM SHIPBUILDING. Henrich R. Greve · 2003
Short- and Long-Term Performance Feedback and Absorptive Capacity Chanan Ben-Oz, Henrich R. Greve · 2012
Organizational Aspirations, Reference Points, and Goals George A. Shinkle · 2011
Variations in R&D Investments of Family and Nonfamily Firms: Behavioral Agency and Myopic Loss Aversion Perspectives James J. Chrisman, Pankaj C. Patel · 2012
Managerial Risk, Innovation, and Organizational Decline Scott Latham, Michael Braun · 2008

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Adaptive aspirations: performance consequences of risk preferences at extremes and alternative reference groups Songcui Hu, Daniela Blettner, Richard A. Bettis · 2011
Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008
Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998
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
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm Richard H. Day et al. · 1964

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

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Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017

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

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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

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Performance, Aspirations, and Market Versus Nonmarket Investment Bruce C. Rudy, Andrew F. Johnson · 2013

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A Behavioral Perspective on Attention Allocation Among Multiple Goals: An Exploratory Examination of the Automotive Industry Songcui Hu · 2012

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Organizational Aspirations, Reference Points, and Goals George A. Shinkle · 2011

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Long–Term Orientation in Publicly Traded Family Businesses: Evidence of a Dominant Logic Richard J. Gentry, Clay Dibrell, Jaemin Kim · 2014

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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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Risk abatement as a strategy for R&D investments in family firms Pankaj C. Patel, James J. Chrisman · 2013

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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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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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Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008

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Performance Feedback Persistence: Comparative Effects of Historical Versus Peer Performance Feedback on Innovative Search Yang Ye, Wei Yu, Robert S. Nason · 2020

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The behavioral theory of the (community‐oriented) firm: The differing response of community‐oriented firms to performance relative to aspirations Stephen Smulowitz, Horacio Enrique Rousseau, Philip Bromiley · 2020

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Goal complexity in family firm diversification: Evidence from China Junsheng Dou et al. · 2020

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Motivations and Outcomes of Firms' Leveraging of Alliance Knowledge Shihao Zhou · 2017

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Less Likely to Fail: Low Performance, Firm Size, and Factory Expansion in the Shipbuilding Industry Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2006

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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

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Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners Joel A. C. Baum et al. · 2005

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Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998

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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 do managers decide on internationalization processes? The role of organizational slack and performance feedback Wenting Lin · 2013

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Short- and Long-Term Performance Feedback and Absorptive Capacity Chanan Ben-Oz, Henrich R. Greve · 2012

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Antecedents of Convergence and Divergence in Strategic Positioning: The Effects of Performance and Aspiration on the Direction of Strategic Change Kyung Min Park · 2007

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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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Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008

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Momentum and Organizational Risk Taking: Evidence from the National Football League David W. Lehman, Jungpil Hahn · 2012

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