Goal setting theory.

By Edwin A. Locke, Gary P. Latham. 2012

316 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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• THE PARADOX OF STRETCH GOALS: ORGANIZATIONS IN PURSUIT OF THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE (2011, background): “when apparent consequences are actually unrelated to organizational action and lead to what March and Olsen (1976) call “superstitious” experiential learning (see also Huber, 1991).”