2024 Aspirations & reference points

CEO Attentional Vigilance: Behavioral Implications for the Pursuit of Exploration

Luke Rhee

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Digital innovation as strategic response: How CEO with informal power deal with inconsistent performance feedback Weiwei Wu et al. · 2025
Different Aspirations, Different Directions: A Behavioural Perspective on Negative Performance Discrepancy and Problemistic Search William C. Zhou · 2026

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A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations Philip Bromiley, Jared D. Harris · 2013
A Behavioral Theory of Firm Growth: Sequential Attention to Size and Performance Goals Henrich R. Greve · 2008
Attention to Attention William Ocasio · 2010
Less Likely to Fail: Low Performance, Firm Size, and Factory Expansion in the Shipbuilding Industry Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2006
'Exploration and exploitation in product innovation' Henrich R. Greve · 2007
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm William J. Baumöl, Richard M. Cyert, J. G. March · 1964
Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017
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

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Safe or Profitable? The Pursuit of Conflicting Goals Vibha Gaba, Henrich R. Greve · 2019
Corporate Structure and Performance Feedback: Aspirations and Adaptation in M-Form Firms Vibha Gaba, John Joseph · 2012
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2021
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback Henrich R. Greve · 2003

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Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017

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Organization Design: Current Insights and Future Research Directions John Joseph, Metin Sengul · 2024

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The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects Giovanni Gavetti et al. · 2012

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

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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

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Attention to Attention William Ocasio · 2010

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Content and process: organizational conflict and decision making Vibha Gaba, John Joseph · 2023

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Innovation performance feedback and technological alliance portfolio diversity: The moderating role of firms’ R&D intensity Andrea Martínez‐Noya, Esteban García Canal · 2021

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

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Goal Hierarchies: Understanding Sub‐Goal and Primary Goal Interdependency Xavier Sobrepere i Profitós, Henrich R. Greve · 2025

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How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement Franziska Lauenstein, Daniel Newark, Oliver Baumann · 2024

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The Plural of Goal: Learning in a World of Ambiguity Daniel A. Levinthal, Claus Rerup · 2020

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Attention to market expansion: Aspirational antecedent and risk-taking consequence Renfei Gao et al. · 2025

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Organizational responses to performance feedback: A meta-analytic review Serhan Kotiloglu, Yan Chen, Thomas Lechler · 2019

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How Performance Incentives Shape Individual Exploration and Exploitation: Evidence from Microdata Sunkee Lee, Philipp Meyer‐Doyle · 2017

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Motivations and Outcomes of Firms' Leveraging of Alliance Knowledge Shihao Zhou · 2017

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(In)Consistent Performance Feedback and the Locus of Search Thomas Keil et al. · 2023

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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 · 2022

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Deviant versus Aspirational Risk Taking: The Effects of Performance Feedback on Bribery Expenditure and R&D Intensity Dean Xu, Kevin Zheng Zhou, Fei Du · 2018

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Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior Weiru Chen · 2008

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Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017

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Situational and institutional determinants of firms' R&D search intensity Weiru Chen, Kent D. Miller · 2007

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