2014 Foundations

Profitability Goals, Control Goals, and the R&D Investment Decisions of Family and Nonfamily Firms

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

Journal of Product Innovation Management

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Risk abatement as a strategy for R&D investments in family firms Pankaj C. Patel, James J. Chrisman · 2013
Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners Joel A. C. Baum et al. · 2005
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
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
Variations in R&D Investments of Family and Nonfamily Firms: Behavioral Agency and Myopic Loss Aversion Perspectives James J. Chrisman, Pankaj C. Patel · 2012
Aspiration-Level Adaptation in an American Financial Services Organization: A Field Study Stephen J. Mezias, Ya-Ru Chen, Patrice Murphy · 2002

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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
Aspiration Level Adaptation: An Empirical Exploration Theresa K. Lant · 1992
A Behavioral Agency Model of Managerial Risk Taking Robert M. Wiseman, Luis R. Gómez‐Mejía · 1998
Strategic reference points in family firms Josip Kotlar et al. · 2014
Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008
Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998
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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