2025 Aspirations & reference points

Legitimacy at a Premium: When Do Firms Hire Comparatively Better (Lesser) Qualified Female Directors?

Punit Arora, Patricia Gabaldón, Cynthia E. Clark, Priya Nagaraj

Corporate Governance An International Review

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Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners Joel A. C. Baum et al. · 2005
A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF R&D EXPENDITURES AND INNOVATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM SHIPBUILDING. Henrich R. Greve · 2003
Aspiration Level Adaptation: An Empirical Exploration Theresa K. Lant · 1992
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
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
Corporate Structure and Performance Feedback: Aspirations and Adaptation in M-Form Firms Vibha Gaba, John Joseph · 2012
Aspirations, innovation, and corporate venture capital: A behavioral perspective Vibha Gaba, Shantanu Bhattacharya · 2012

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The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects Giovanni Gavetti et al. · 2012
Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve · 2021

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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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Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards' Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity? HeeJung Jung, Yonghoon G. Lee, Sun Hyun Park · 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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Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts Elizabeth Lim · 2024

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CEO option wealth and firm risk-taking: An analysis of multiple reference points Elizabeth Lim · 2017

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

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

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

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Multiple corporate and functional performance feedback and problemistic search Evangelos Syrigos, Κωνσταντίνος Κωστόπουλος, Constantinos Mammassis · 2023

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Feedback persistence matters! Uncovering the varying effects of success and failure persistence on firm risk-taking Lakshmi Goyal, Vikas Goyal · 2023

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How strategic alliances shape problemistic search intensity: Evidence from responses to social and historical underperformance Jake Duke et al. · 2024

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

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Problemistic Search of the Embedded Firm: The Joint Effects of Performance Feedback and Network Positions on Venture Capital Firms’ Risk Taking Songcui Hu, Qian Gu, Jun Xia · 2021

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Is LGBT inclusion motivated by organizational performance? Exploring the relationships between performance feedback and LGBT inclusion in firms Serhan Kotiloglu, Aaron T. McDonald · 2023

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Stock Return or Sales Growth? Multiple Performance Feedback and Strategic Investments Under Securities Analysts’ Earnings Pressure Yu Zhang, Yan Gong · 2018

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The role of top management teams in firm responses to performance shortfalls Kalin D. Kolev, Gerry McNamara · 2022

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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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Goal Selection Internally and Externally: A Behavioral Theory of Institutionalization Henrich R. Greve, Daphne Teh · 2018

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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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