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Performance Shortfall, Feedback Interpretation and R&D Search: The Differential Effects of Peers’ Performance Below Historical and Social Aspirations

Lakshmi Goyal, Vikas Goyal

British Journal of Management

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New product introductions below aspirations, slack and R&D alliances: A behavioral perspective Beverly B. Tyler, Turanay Caner · 2015
Reciprocity and R&D search: Applying the behavioral theory of the firm to a communitarian context Jonathan O’Brien, Parthiban David · 2013
A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations Philip Bromiley, Jared D. Harris · 2013
Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners Joel A. C. Baum et al. · 2005
How do managers decide on internationalization processes? The role of organizational slack and performance feedback Wenting Lin · 2013
Positional rigidity: low performance and resource acquisition in large and small firms Henrich R. Greve · 2010
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects Giovanni Gavetti et al. · 2012
Situational and institutional determinants of firms' R&D search intensity Weiru Chen, Kent D. Miller · 2007

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Constrained Growth: How Experience, Legitimacy, and Age Influence Risk Taking in Organizations Vinit M. Desai · 2008
R&D Investment in the Global Paper Products Industry: A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and National Culture Perspective Krista B. Lewellyn, Shuji ‘Rosey’ Bao · 2015
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Business Group Affiliation and Firm Search Behavior in India: Responsiveness and Focus of Attention Balagopal Vissa, Henrich R. Greve, Weiru Chen · 2009
Learning Through the Distribution of Failures within an Organization: Evidence from Heart Bypass Surgery Performance Vinit M. Desai · 2014
Antecedents of Convergence and Divergence in Strategic Positioning: The Effects of Performance and Aspiration on the Direction of Strategic Change Kyung Min Park · 2007
Contradictory yet Coherent? Inconsistency in Performance Feedback and R&D Investment Change Gerardus J. M. Lucas, Joris Knoben, Marius T.H. Meeus · 2015
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
Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. Kenneth E. Boulding, Richard M. Cyert, James G. March · 1964
Organizational Structure and Performance Feedback: Centralization, Aspirations, and Termination Decisions John Joseph, Ronald Klingebiel, Alex James Wilson · 2016
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