2012 Aspirations & reference points

Corporate Structure and Performance Feedback: Aspirations and Adaptation in M-Form Firms

Vibha Gaba, John Joseph

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Performance feedback and middle managers’ divergent strategic behavior: The roles of social comparisons and organizational identification Murat Tarakci et al. · 2017
Organizational Goals: Antecedents, Formation Processes and Implications for Firm Behavior and Performance Josip Kotlar et al. · 2018
Goal Selection Internally and Externally: A Behavioral Theory of Institutionalization Henrich R. Greve, Daphne Teh · 2018
Performance Feedback in Hierarchical Business Groups: The Cross-Level Effects of Cognitive Accessibility on R&D Search Behavior Luke Rhee, William Ocasio, Tae-Hyun Kim · 2019
Dominant Coalitions Directing Acquisitions: Different Decision Makers, Different Decisions Cyndi Man Zhang, Henrich R. Greve · 2018
Stock Return or Sales Growth? Multiple Performance Feedback and Strategic Investments Under Securities Analysts’ Earnings Pressure Yu Zhang, Yan Gong · 2018
Safe or Profitable? The Pursuit of Conflicting Goals Vibha Gaba, Henrich R. Greve · 2019
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
The role of performance feedback consistency in aspiration level adaptation: Evidence from a European grocery retailer Burak Cem Konduk · 2019
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
Tie Dissolution in Market Networks: A Theory of Vicarious Performance Feedback David R. Clough, Henning Piezunka · 2020
Biased interpretation of performance feedback: The role of CEO overconfidence Christian Schumacher, Steffen Keck, Wenjie Tang · 2020
The Plural of Goal: Learning in a World of Ambiguity Daniel A. Levinthal, Claus Rerup · 2020
Problem-Solving or Self-Enhancing? Influences of Diversification and Bright Spot on Corporate Resource Allocation Responses to Performance Shortfalls Elizabeth Lim, Pino G. Audia · 2020
Back to basics: Behavioral theory and internationalization Irina Surdu, Henrich R. Greve, Gabriel R.G. Benito · 2020
Motivation and Ability? A Behavioral Perspective on the Pursuit of Radical Invention in Multi-Technology Incumbents J. P. Eggers, Aseem Kaul · 2017
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals: A Multiple Goals Perspective Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2021
How aspiration and expectation shortfalls drive strategic investments Jan Mammen · 2021
Innovation performance feedback and technological alliance portfolio diversity: The moderating role of firms’ R&D intensity Andrea Martínez‐Noya, Esteban García Canal · 2021
Problemistic Search of the Embedded Firm: The Joint Effects of Performance Feedback and Network Positions on Venture Capital Firms’ Risk Taking Songcui Hu, Qian Gu, Jun Xia · 2021
Aspiration formation and attention rules Luca Berchicci, Murat Tarakci · 2021
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2021
Caught in an Expectations Trap: Risks of Giving Securities Analysts What They Expect Guilhem Bascle, Jiwook Jung · 2023
Historical and social aspirations: influence of SME key decision makers’ resilience, social skills and stress on attaining firm performance goals Jenny Gibb et al. · 2022
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards' Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity? HeeJung Jung, Yonghoon G. Lee, Sun Hyun Park · 2023
Prior Experience of Managers and Maladaptive Responses to Performance Feedback: Evidence from Mutual Funds Vibha Gaba et al. · 2022
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Rethinking customer-perceived value in business markets from an organizational perspective Michael Kleinaltenkamp et al. · 2022
Responding to Inconsistent Performance Feedback on Multiple Goals: The Contingency Role of Decision Maker's Status in Introducing Changes Κωνσταντίνος Κωστόπουλος, Evangelos Syrigos, Pasi Kuusela · 2022
How the ghosts of past experience haunt problemistic search Joseph J. Cabral, Dinesh N. Iyer, Jonathan O’Brien · 2023
Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose-driven mechanism in organizations' reference selection Johannes Luger · 2023
Structuring the situation: Organizational goals trigger and direct decision-making Henrich R. Greve · 2023
Innovation performance feedback and patent acquisition from the market: A behavioral perspective Jongseon Lee, Nami Kim · 2023
Performance feedback and firms’ strategic actions: a cross-national meta-analysis Shan Xue, Honghui Chen, Jintao Wu · 2023
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies Ruth V. Aguilera et al. · 2023
Social Comparison Inside Business Groups and Strategic Change: Evidence from Group‐affiliated Chinese Firms Pengcheng Ma, Lin Cui, Dean Xu · 2023
Content and process: organizational conflict and decision making Vibha Gaba, John Joseph · 2023
Multiple corporate and functional performance feedback and problemistic search Evangelos Syrigos, Κωνσταντίνος Κωστόπουλος, Constantinos Mammassis · 2023
CEO Attentional Vigilance: Behavioral Implications for the Pursuit of Exploration Luke Rhee · 2024
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Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts Elizabeth Lim · 2024
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The silence of the slacked: The negative side effect of slack on problemistic search Sergii Nevmerzhytskyi, W. Glenn Rowe · 2025
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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
Reluctant to change: Self-enhancing responses to diverging performance measures Pino G. Audia, Sébastien Brion · 2006
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
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm Richard M. Cyert, James G. March · 1963
Less Likely to Fail: Low Performance, Firm Size, and Factory Expansion in the Shipbuilding Industry Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2006
Business Group Affiliation and Firm Search Behavior in India: Responsiveness and Focus of Attention Balagopal Vissa, Henrich R. Greve, Weiru Chen · 2009

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'Exploration and exploitation in product innovation' Henrich R. Greve · 2007
Antecedents of Convergence and Divergence in Strategic Positioning: The Effects of Performance and Aspiration on the Direction of Strategic Change Kyung Min Park · 2007
Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm William J. Baumöl, Richard M. Cyert, J. G. March · 1964
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
Aspirations, innovation, and corporate venture capital: A behavioral perspective Vibha Gaba, Shantanu Bhattacharya · 2012
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve · 2003
PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK, SLACK, AND THE TIMING OF ACQUISITIONS. Dinesh N. Iyer, Kent D. Miller · 2008

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