Investment and the behavioral theory of the firm: evidence from shipbuilding

By Henrich R. Greve. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Organizational Aspirations, Reference Points, and Goals (2012, background): “In the behavioral view, shifting managerial attention focuses the organization on aspirations that are in danger of not being met (Greve, 2003c; Ocasio, 1997).”
Disentangling Risk and Change (2015, background): “For example, new product innovations may lead to risk for the firm (Greve, 2003a, 2007), whereas other changes might have little bearing on risk because they involve the imitation of well-established practices and strategies or incremental and routine adaptations (Ketchen and Palmer, 1999; Massini,…”
Life in the fast lane: Origins of competitive interaction in new vs. established markets (2010, unknown): “While our evolutionary search arguments suggested and found a continuous relationship between performance and competitive moves, we also considered whether firms may initiate search when confronted with failure relative to a reference point (Cyert and March, 1963; Greve, 2003b).”
Organizational responses to performance feedback: A meta-analytic review (2019, methodology): “We labeled a relationship as examining product innovation if it investigated how firms introduce new products or technologies to the market (Greve, 2003c; Nohria and Gulati, 1996).”
All Aspirations are not Created Equal: The Differential Effects of Historical and Social Aspirations on Acquisition Behavior (2014, background): “These factors make the historical aspiration level a relatively credible predictor of how well they could perform given their resources and capabilities (Greve, 2003a: 42).”
Contradictory yet Coherent? Inconsistency in Performance Feedback and R&D Investment Change (2018, methodology): “In particular, we looked at (in)consistency in performance–aspiration discrepancies based on historical and social aspiration levels, which were the most commonly used performance feedback signals in the literature (Baum et al., 2005; Greve, 1998, 2003c).”
A Study of the Association between Level of Slack Reduction Following Downsizing and Innovation Output (2010, unknown): “This is in line with previous research arguing that ‘absorbed slack corresponds to excess costs in the organization and can be observed in a firm through higher cost levels compared with firms with similar output levels’ (Ozcan, 2005, p. 6; see also, Greve, 2003).”
Navigators through the storm: A review of organization theories and the behavior of incumbent firms during transitions (2017, background): “The identified solutions vary widely; firms may, for example, promptly join R &D consortia (Bolton, 1993), increase their R & D investments (Antonelli, 1989; Greve, 2003a), grow their production assets (Greve, 2003b), or initiate risky strategic changes (Greve, 1998; Greve and Taylor, 2000).”
All the right moves: How entrepreneurial firms compete effectively (2012, background): “Studies in a variety of contexts—such as airlines (Miller and Chen, 1994), trucking (Audia, Locke, and Smith, 2000), shipbuilding (Greve, 2003), radio broadcasting (Greve, 1998), and Fortune 500 fi rms in various industries (Ferrier et al., 1999)—examine the effects of competitive moves on fi rm…”
Incentives to Cheat: The Influence of Executive Compensation and Firm Performance on Financial Misrepresentation (2007, unknown): “Our argument parallels previous arguments concerning aspiration levels and risk (Bromiley 1991; Fiegenbaum 1990; Fiegenbaum and Thomas 1986, 1988; Greve 1998, 2003b; Miller and Bromiley 1990; Singh 1986; Wiseman and Bromiley 1996; Wiseman and Catanach 1997).”
Comparing Aspiration Models: The Role of Selective Attention (2010, unknown): “…(Greve 1998, Denrell and March 2001, Audia and Greve 2006), others use switching models of comparison and past performance (Bromiley 1991, Deephouse and Wiseman 2000), and others use separate social comparison and past performance aspiration variables (Greve, 2003, Iyer and Miller, 2008).”