2025 Aspirations & reference points

High flying adored: How CEO narcissism influences firms' responses to above-aspiration performance with risky organizational change

Korcan Kavuşan, Daniel Z. Mack, Matthew Mount, Gökhan Ertug

Strategic Management Journal

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Curvilinear Dynamics of Performance Shortfalls and Digital Innovation: The Moderating Role of IT Expertise Shengjie Xie, Xiaowei Liu, Wen Guang Qu · 2026
Different Aspirations, Different Directions: A Behavioural Perspective on Negative Performance Discrepancy and Problemistic Search William C. Zhou · 2026

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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
When do firms change technology‐sourcing vehicles? The role of poor innovative performance and financial slack Razvan Lungeanu, Ithai Stern, Edward J. Zajac · 2015
Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners Joel A. C. Baum et al. · 2005
Explaining temporal orientation: Evidence from the durability of firms' capital investments David Souder, Philip Bromiley · 2011
A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF R&D EXPENDITURES AND INNOVATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM SHIPBUILDING. Henrich R. Greve · 2003
CEO Hubris and Firm Risk Taking in China: The Moderating Role of Managerial Discretion Jiatao Li, Yi Tang · 2010
All Aspirations are not Created Equal: The Differential Effects of Historical and Social Aspirations on Acquisition Behavior Ji‐Yub Kim, Sydney Finkelstein, Jerayr Haleblian · 2014

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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
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm William J. Baumöl, Richard M. Cyert, J. G. March · 1964
Driven by aspirations, but in what direction? Performance shortfalls, slack resources, and resource‐consuming vs. resource‐freeing organizational change Pasi Kuusela, Thomas Keil, Markku Maula · 2016
Self-Assessment, Self-Enhancement, and the Choice of Comparison Organizations for Evaluating Organizational Performance Pino G. Audia, Sébastien Brion, Henrich R. Greve · 2015
Renewing Research on Problemistic Search—A Review and Research Agenda Hart E. Posen et al. · 2017
Dominant Coalitions Directing Acquisitions: Different Decision Makers, Different Decisions Cyndi Man Zhang, Henrich R. Greve · 2018
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
A behavioral theory of alliance portfolio reconfiguration: Evidence from pharmaceutical biotechnology Korcan Kavuşan, Hans T. W. Frankort · 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
Performance Feedback Persistence: Comparative Effects of Historical Versus Peer Performance Feedback on Innovative Search Yang Ye, Wei Yu, Robert S. Nason · 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 Henrich R. Greve · 2003
PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK, SLACK, AND THE TIMING OF ACQUISITIONS. Dinesh N. Iyer, Kent D. Miller · 2008

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Change or stability? A meta-analysis of organizational responses to social and historical performance feedback Stefan Breet, Pursey Heugens, Anna Nadolska · 2025

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A behavioral theory of Leviathan Inc: State firms’ responses to performance shortfalls Zhiyan Wu, Ronald Klingebiel · 2024

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60th birthday of ‘A Behavioral Theory of the Firm’: a review of the relational concepts and recommendations for future research Moritz Hagen, Wenjia Su, Sebastian Junge · 2023

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

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

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

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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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How do managerial perceptions of performance feedback affect innovation? Nilesh Saraf, Srabana Dasgupta, Daniela Blettner · 2021

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Performance Feedback and Risk‐Taking: A Configurational Approach Lakshmi Goyal, Manish Popli · 2023

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The silence of the slacked: The negative side effect of slack on problemistic search Sergii Nevmerzhytskyi, W. Glenn Rowe · 2025

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Driven by aspirations, but in what direction? Performance shortfalls, slack resources, and resource‐consuming vs. resource‐freeing organizational change Pasi Kuusela, Thomas Keil, Markku Maula · 2016

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Performance Feedback Persistence: Comparative Effects of Historical Versus Peer Performance Feedback on Innovative Search Yang Ye, Wei Yu, Robert S. Nason · 2020

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Structuring the situation: Organizational goals trigger and direct decision-making Henrich R. Greve · 2023

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How does inconsistent negative performance feedback affect the R&D investments of firms? A study of publicly listed firms David Diwei Lv et al. · 2019

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How do aspirations work? Financial performance shortfalls and firms' green innovation Jing Zhao, Xiyun Cheng, Jintong Guo · 2025

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Content and process: organizational conflict and decision making Vibha Gaba, John Joseph · 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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(In)Consistent Performance Feedback and the Locus of Search Thomas Keil et al. · 2023

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A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations Philip Bromiley, Jared D. Harris · 2013

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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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Less Likely to Fail: Low Performance, Firm Size, and Factory Expansion in the Shipbuilding Industry Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2006

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Performance, Aspirations, and Risky Organizational Change Henrich R. Greve · 1998

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