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How Do Public Managers Learn from Performance Information? Experimental Evidence on Problem Focus, Innovative Search, and Change

Jesper Asring Jessen Hansen, Poul Aaes Nielsen

Public Administration Review

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Beyond problemistic search: a contingency perspective on organizational response to performance feedback Taek Kyu Kim, Weijie Wang · 2026
Searching near and far? Search distance and performance below historical and social aspirations Catarina Antunes Mantas, Joris van der Voet, Amandine Lerusse · 2026

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LEARNING FROM PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION, ASPIRATION LEVELS, AND MANAGERIAL PRIORITIES Poul Aaes Nielsen · 2013
A Behavioral Theory of Firm Growth: Sequential Attention to Size and Performance Goals Henrich R. Greve · 2008
Short- and Long-Term Performance Feedback and Absorptive Capacity Chanan Ben-Oz, Henrich R. Greve · 2012
Performance Gaps and Managerial Decisions: A Bayesian Decision Theory of Managerial Action Kenneth J. Meier, Nathan Favero, Ling Zhu · 2015
Organizational Aspirations, Reference Points, and Goals George A. Shinkle · 2011
Drivers of Performance Information Use: Systematic Literature Review and Directions for Future Research Alexander Kroll · 2015
A Behavioral Model of Innovative Search: Evidence from Public Hospital Services Torsten Oliver Salge · 2010
Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008

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PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK, GOVERNMENT GOAL‐SETTING AND ASPIRATION LEVEL ADAPTATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE PROVINCES Liang Ma · 2015
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm William J. Baumöl, Richard M. Cyert, J. G. March · 1964
Performance and Management in the Public Sector: Testing a Model of Relative Risk Aversion Sean Nicholson‐Crotty, Jill Nicholson‐Crotty, Sergio Fernández · 2016
Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017
Double standards? How historical and political aspiration levels guide managerial performance information use Jakob Majlund Holm · 2017
A Behavioral Model of Public Organizations: Bounded Rationality, Performance Feedback, and Negativity Bias Sounman Hong · 2018
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve · 2003

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Bounded rationality, blame avoidance, and political accountability: how performance information influences management quality Sounman Hong, Sun Hyoung Kim, Jieun Son · 2019

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