2023 Foundations

Unfinished business: integrating individual decision-makers' experience and incentives to organizational performance feedback theory

Daniela Blettner, Serhan Kotiloglu, Thomas Lechler

Frontiers in Psychology

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Self-Enhancement and Learning from Performance Feedback Alexander Jordan, Pino G. Audia · 2012
Less Likely to Fail: Low Performance, Firm Size, and Factory Expansion in the Shipbuilding Industry Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2006
Performance Feedback and Firm Risk Taking: The Moderating Effects of CEO and Outside Director Stock Options Elizabeth Lim, Brian T. McCann · 2013

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Self-Assessment, Self-Enhancement, and the Choice of Comparison Organizations for Evaluating Organizational Performance Pino G. Audia, Sébastien Brion, Henrich R. Greve · 2015
Entering new markets: The effect of performance feedback near aspiration and well below and above it Ohad Ref, Zur Shapira · 2016
Conflict inside and outside: Social comparisons and attention shifts in multidivisional firms Songcui Hu et al. · 2016
CEO option wealth and firm risk-taking: An analysis of multiple reference points Elizabeth Lim · 2017
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Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017
Performance feedback and middle managers’ divergent strategic behavior: The roles of social comparisons and organizational identification Murat Tarakci et al. · 2017
Problem-Solving or Self-Enhancement? A Power Perspective on How CEOs Affect R&D Search in the Face of Inconsistent Feedback Radina R. Blagoeva et al. · 2019
Organizational responses to performance feedback: A meta-analytic review Serhan Kotiloglu, Yan Chen, Thomas Lechler · 2019
Biased interpretation of performance feedback: The role of CEO overconfidence Christian Schumacher, Steffen Keck, Wenjie Tang · 2020
The role of top management teams in firm responses to performance shortfalls Kalin D. Kolev, Gerry McNamara · 2022
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
CEOs’ Regulatory Focus and Risk-Taking When Firms Perform Below and Above the Bar Matthew Mount, Markus Baer · 2021
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2021
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Prior Experience of Managers and Maladaptive Responses to Performance Feedback: Evidence from Mutual Funds Vibha Gaba et al. · 2022
Self‐Assessment versus Self‐Improvement Motives: How Does Social Reference Group Selection Influence Organizational Responses to Performance Feedback? Daniela Blettner, Serhan Kotiloglu, Thomas Lechler · 2023

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Performance feedback and firms’ strategic actions: a cross-national meta-analysis Shan Xue, Honghui Chen, Jintao Wu · 2023

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Managerial Risk Taking Robert E. Hoskisson et al. · 2016

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Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback Cassandra R. Chambers, Marlon Fernandes Rodrigues Alves, Pedro Aceves · 2024

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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

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Aspiration formation and attention rules Luca Berchicci, Murat Tarakci · 2021

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