Renewing research on problemistic search—A review and research agenda

HE Posen, T Keil, S Kim… - Academy of Management …, 2018‏ - journals.aom.org
Problemistic search theory, with its roots in the Carnegie School tradition, describes a
behaviorally plausible process by which firms learn from performance feedback. A firm's …

Organizational aspirations, reference points, and goals: Building on the past and aiming for the future

GA Shinkle - Journal of management, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Three distinct frameworks have been advanced by scholars to analyze organizational
aspirations: behavioral theory, Ansoff's strategic management view, and strategic reference …

How firms make information technology investment decisions: Toward a behavioral agency theory

JQ Dong, PP Karhade, A Rai, SX Xu - Journal of Management …, 2021‏ - Taylor & Francis
While prior research has established that information technology (IT) investment has a
significant impact on firm performance, relatively few studies have provided insights into the …

Slack resources and the performance of privately held firms

G George - Academy of management Journal, 2005‏ - journals.aom.org
Empirical findings from publicly traded firms and behavioral arguments suggest a positive
influence of resource slack on financial performance. While this area has remained …

Incentives to cheat: The influence of executive compensation and firm performance on financial misrepresentation

J Harris, P Bromiley - Organization Science, 2007‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Despite the many undesirable outcomes of corporate misconduct, scholars have an
inadequate understanding of corporate misconduct's causes and mechanisms. We extend …

A comparison of alternative measures of organizational aspirations

P Bromiley, JD Harris - Strategic Management Journal, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Research on organizational aspirations has used various representations of firm‐level
aspirations and based those representations on various performance measures. To …

Variable organizational risk preferences: Tests of the March-Shapira model

KD Miller, WR Chen - Academy of Management Journal, 2004‏ - journals.aom.org
,) model of managers' risk preferences allows for shifts in attention between survival and
aspiration levels. Our study provides initial empirical tests of their model using …

Performance feedback and location choice of foreign direct investment

S **ao, X Tian - International Business Review, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Integrating the behavioral theory of the firm and the OLI paradigm, this paper studies how
performance feedback affects the location choice of emerging market firms between …

Towards understanding who makes corporate venture capital investments and why

S Basu, C Phelps, S Kotha - Journal of Business Venturing, 2011‏ - Elsevier
This study examines when established firms participate in corporate venture capital (CVC).
We build on the resource-based view of interfirm collaboration and emphasize the strategic …

Entrepreneurial orientation and environmental hostility: A threat rigidity perspective

PM Kreiser, BS Anderson… - … Theory and Practice, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
We posit that environmental hostility exhibits an inverse U-shaped relationship with a firm's
entrepreneurial orientation. We suggest a nuanced perspective on the threat rigidity …