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 …

The ties that unbind: Socialization and business-owning family reference point shift

R Nason, A Mazzelli, M Carney - Academy of Management …, 2019 - journals.aom.org
Existing theory describes how family firms utilize a unique socioemotional reference point to
frame strategic decision making, but scholars have not fully considered family-level strategy …

The fog of feedback: Ambiguity and firm responses to multiple aspiration levels

J Joseph, V Gaba - Strategic Management Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines firms' responses to performance assessments relative to multiple
aspiration levels. We argue that comparisons of performance to multiple aspiration levels …

Underperformance duration and innovative search: Evidence from the high‐tech manufacturing industry

W Yu, M Minniti, R Nason - Strategic Management Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary Behavioral theory examines how the intensity of underperformance
influences firms' strategic decisions; yet, it largely fails to consider the effect of …

Contradictory yet coherent? Inconsistency in performance feedback and R&D investment change

GJM Lucas, J Knoben… - Journal of Management, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we study to what extent inconsistent feedback signals about performance affect
firm adaptive behavior in terms of changes made to research-and-development (R&D) …

Performance feedback persistence: Comparative effects of historical versus peer performance feedback on innovative search

Y Ye, W Yu, R Nason - Journal of Management, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Firms use aspirations to regulate innovative search activities, but peer and historical
referents may contain different signals regarding performance feedback. Integrating insights …

[HTML][HTML] Persist or let it go: Do rational entrepreneurs make decisions rationally?

N Lin, R Wilden, F Chirico, E Ghasrodashti… - Journal of Business …, 2022 - Elsevier
We theorize that both highly rational entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs with a high need for
cognitive closure (NFCC) are likely to put more emphasis on retrospective factors (period …

Placing their bets: The influence of strategic investment on CEO pay‐for‐performance

W Shi, BL Connelly, JD Mackey… - Strategic Management …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary A number of studies examine the extent to which boards compensate
CEOs for their firm's performance (ie, pay‐for‐performance), but these studies typically do …

Performance feedback and firms' strategic actions: a cross-national meta-analysis

S Xue, H Chen, J Wu - Management Decision, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Although previous research has investigated how performance feedback may affect
firms' strategic actions, their findings has been inconsistent. The relationship between …

Building a resilient organization through a pre‐shock strategic emphasis on innovation

A Engelen, C Huesker, V Rieger… - Journal of Product …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Why are some firms more resilient when systemic shocks like the Global Financial Crisis
(GFC) or COVID‐19 pandemic set in? We approach this question by arguing that a firm's pre …