2025 Aspirations & reference points

Beyond tradeoffs: How Do Local Governments Synergize Multiple Complementary Goals?

Siyao Zhu, Hongshuai Wang, Pan Zhang

Public Performance & Management Review

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LEARNING FROM PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION, ASPIRATION LEVELS, AND MANAGERIAL PRIORITIES Poul Aaes Nielsen · 2013
Performance Gaps and Managerial Decisions: A Bayesian Decision Theory of Managerial Action Kenneth J. Meier, Nathan Favero, Ling Zhu · 2015
PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK, GOVERNMENT GOAL‐SETTING AND ASPIRATION LEVEL ADAPTATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE PROVINCES Liang Ma · 2015
Target Interactions and Target Aspiration Level Adaptation: How Do Government Leaders Tackle the “Environment‐Economy” Nexus? Pan Zhang · 2021
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2021
Women hold up the shattering sky? Performance feedback on multiple conflicting goals and women’s representation in top management teams in the public sector Ting Huang · 2024

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‘Profiting from at least one side’: goal conflict, performance feedback, and data manipulation Chengwei Wang, Liang Ma · 2025

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When goals waltz together: how (in)consistent performance feedback on multiple complementary goals affects performance improvements in the public sector Shaowei Chen et al. · 2025

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Women hold up the shattering sky? Performance feedback on multiple conflicting goals and women’s representation in top management teams in the public sector Ting Huang · 2024

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Target Interactions and Target Aspiration Level Adaptation: How Do Government Leaders Tackle the “Environment‐Economy” Nexus? Pan Zhang · 2021

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Alleviating or aggravating? How patronage ties moderate the impacts of performance feedback on data manipulation in public performance management Shaowei Chen · 2026

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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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Hanging in the Balance: Assessing Goal Prioritization Among Street-Level Bureaucrats Amanda Rutherford, Shaun Khurana · 2026

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Manager and employee behaviors in response to performance signals in public organizations Taek Kyu Kim · 2023

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PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK, GOVERNMENT GOAL‐SETTING AND ASPIRATION LEVEL ADAPTATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE PROVINCES Liang Ma · 2015

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A Behavioral Model of Public Organizations: Bounded Rationality, Performance Feedback, and Negativity Bias Sounman Hong · 2018

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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 · 2022

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Search in Response to Negative Performance Feedback: Problem-Definition and Solution-Generation Joris van der Voet · 2022

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Hidden Costs of Performance Management: When Performance Feedback Encourages Gaming and Dysfunctional Behaviors Suho Ji, Sounman Hong · 2025

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Performance Gaps and Managerial Decisions: A Bayesian Decision Theory of Managerial Action Kenneth J. Meier, Nathan Favero, Ling Zhu · 2015

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Issue prioritisation decisions by local politicians: the role of order effects and justification requirements Amandine Lerusse · 2024

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Double standards? How historical and political aspiration levels guide managerial performance information use Jakob Majlund Holm · 2017

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From One Empirical Study to 150 Henrich R. Greve · 2021

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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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Adding by Subtracting: The Relationship Between Performance Feedback and Resource Reconfiguration Through Divestitures Elena Vidal, Will Mitchell · 2015

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Managerial decision making and firm performance under a resource‐based paradigm Martin Kunc, John Morecroft · 2010

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