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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

Journal of Management

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A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations Philip Bromiley, Jared D. Harris · 2013
The impacts of performance relative to analyst forecasts and analyst coverage on firm R&D intensity Richard J. Gentry, Wei Shen · 2012
Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners Joel A. C. Baum et al. · 2005
Performance Feedback, Slack, and The Timing of Acquisitions Dinesh N. Iyer, Kent D. Miller · 2008
Positional rigidity: low performance and resource acquisition in large and small firms Henrich R. Greve · 2010
Situational and institutional determinants of firms' R&D search intensity Weiru Chen, Kent D. Miller · 2007
A Behavioral Theory of Firm Growth: Sequential Attention to Size and Performance Goals Henrich R. Greve · 2008

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Sticky Aspirations: Organizational Time Perspective and Competitiveness Henrich R. Greve · 2002
Investment and the behavioral theory of the firm: evidence from shipbuilding Henrich R. Greve · 2003
Short- and Long-Term Performance Feedback and Absorptive Capacity Chanan Ben-Oz, Henrich R. Greve · 2012
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
Self-Enhancement and Learning from Performance Feedback Alexander Jordan, Pino G. Audia · 2012
Variations in R&D Investments of Family and Nonfamily Firms: Behavioral Agency and Myopic Loss Aversion Perspectives James J. Chrisman, Pankaj C. Patel · 2012
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
Performance, Aspirations, and Market Versus Nonmarket Investment Bruce C. Rudy, Andrew F. Johnson · 2013
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Aspiration Performance and Railroads’ Patterns of Learning from Train Wrecks and Crashes Joel A. C. Baum, Kristina Dahlin · 2007
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Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008
Incentives to Cheat: The Influence of Executive Compensation and Firm Performance on Financial Misrepresentation Jared D. Harris, Philip Bromiley · 2007
Self-Assessment, Self-Enhancement, and the Choice of Comparison Organizations for Evaluating Organizational Performance Pino G. Audia, Sébastien Brion, Henrich R. Greve · 2015
Conflict inside and outside: Social comparisons and attention shifts in multidivisional firms Songcui Hu et al. · 2016
A Behavioral Theory of Social Performance: Social Identity and Stakeholder Expectations Robert S. Nason, Sophie Bacq, David Gras · 2017
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