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 …

Miller (1983) revisited: A reflection on EO research and some suggestions for the future

D Miller - Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Using Miller (1983) as a starting point, this article reviews the literature on entrepreneurial
orientation or “EO.” It summarizes Miller's major points before recapping some of the …

Corporate social responsibility and firm financial performance: The mediating role of productivity

I Hasan, N Kobeissi, L Liu, H Wang - Journal of Business Ethics, 2018 - Springer
This study treats firm productivity as an accumulation of productive intangibles and posits
that stakeholder engagement associated with better corporate social performance helps …

Corporate entrepreneurship, disruptive business model innovation adoption, and its performance: The case of the newspaper industry

J Karimi, Z Walter - Long range planning, 2016 - Elsevier
Recently, Internet and digitization, along with major news and information companies, have
disrupted traditional newspaper companies' business models, and raised serious concerns …

The harm of symbolic actions and green-washing: Corporate actions and communications on environmental performance and their financial implications

K Walker, F Wan - Journal of business ethics, 2012 - Springer
We examine over 100 top performing Canadian firms in visibly polluting industries as we
seek to answer four research questions: What specific environmental issues are firms …

Clarifying the conditions and limits of the contributions of ordinary and dynamic capabilities to relative firm performance

PL Drnevich, AP Kriauciunas - Strategic management journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Strategy scholars have argued that capabilities can influence firm performance through a
variety of means and mechanisms. However, the role of capabilities and their proposed …

Socioemotional wealth and business risks in family-controlled firms: Evidence from Spanish olive oil mills

LR Gómez-Mejía, KT Haynes… - Administrative …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper challenges the prevalent notion that family-owned firms are more risk averse
than publicly owned firms. Using behavioral theory, we argue that for family firms, the …

Innovation is not enough: Climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance

M Baer, M Frese - Journal of Organizational Behavior: The …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This paper contributes to the discussion on contingencies of process innovations by
focusing on and introducing organizational‐level constructs of climate for initiative and …

Talking trash: Legitimacy, impression management, and unsystematic risk in the context of the natural environment

P Bansal, I Clelland - Academy of Management journal, 2004 - journals.aom.org
Applying institutional theory, we argue that environmentally legitimate firms incur less
unsystematic stock market risk than illegitimate firms. Firms earn environmental legitimacy …

Disaggregating entrepreneurial orientation: the non-linear impact of innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking on SME performance

PM Kreiser, LD Marino, DF Kuratko… - Small business economics, 2013 - Springer
Previous studies have generally established a positive relationship between aggregated
measures of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm performance. However, there are …