Less Likely to Fail: Low Performance, Firm Size, and Factory Expansion in the Shipbuilding Industry

By Pino G. Audia, Henrich R. Greve. Management Sciences, 2006

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All Aspirations are not Created Equal: The Differential Effects of Historical and Social Aspirations on Acquisition Behavior (2014, background): “Research on performance feedback has grown substantially in recent years (e.g., Audia & Greve, 2006; Baum et al., 2005; Mishina et al., 2010).”
Managerial Risk, Innovation, and Organizational Decline (2009, background): “One distinct stream of literature calls attention to managers’ reliance on firm innovation as a solution to organizational decline (Audia & Greve, 2006; Barker & Mone,1998; Greve, 2003; Mone, McKinley, & Barker, 1998; Wiseman & Bromiley, 1996).”
CEO Narcissism, Audience Engagement, and Organizational Adoption of Technological Discontinuities (2013, methodology): “…a percentage of salest-1, to control both for the availability of resources and the possibility of risk-seeking tendencies by firms with low returns (Audia and Greve, 2006), as well as for the tendency for narcissists to be relatively less responsive to recent performance than are non-narcissists…”
Organizational Learning in Target Setting (2017, background): “…changes in knowledge, such as: learning curve effects (Argote, 2013; Argote & Epple, 1990; Balasubramanian & Lieberman, 2010); investment behavior (Audia & Greve, 2006; Greve, 2007); innovation launches (Greve, 2003); growth (Greve, 2008; Sorenson, 2003); patents (Schildt, Keil, & Maula, 2012;…”
Executive Personality, Capability Cues, and Risk Taking (2011, background): “Since the magnitude of risky outlays in the prior year could affect outlays in the current year (Audia and Greve, 2006), we included the amount of risky outlays (logged)—the sum of R&D, capital, and acquisition expenditures—in year t+ n–1 as a control variable.”
CEO Hubris and Firm Risk Taking in China: The Moderating Role of Managerial Discretion (2010, background): “…& Freeman, 1984); firm size had a positive effect on risk taking (p .001), suggesting that firms with more resources are more likely to take risks (Audia & Greve, 2006); and firms doing more R&D were more inclined to take the risk of attempting to invest in high and new technologies (p .001),…”
Organizational responses to performance feedback: A meta-analytic review (2019, background): “, 2015) Investments in machinery and factory (Audia and Greve, 2006) Strategic change Changes in organizational structure, organizational scope, or strategic positioning (Gavetti et al.”
Managing Responsibly in Tough Economic Times: Strategic and Tactical CSR During the 2008–2009 Global Recession (2015, background): “High CFP, reflecting a larger pool of resources, extends the firm's time horizon because it allows the firm to wait longer before recuperating its investments in socially responsible activities (Audia and Greve, 2006; Nohria and Gulati, 1996; Singh, 1986).”
In the Horns of the Dilemma: Socioemotional Wealth, Financial Wealth, and Acquisitions in Family Firms (2018, background): “Including slack as a sign of vulnerability speaks to the behavioral theory of the firm by supporting the argument that behavioral rationales attributable to owners can explain corporate-level phenomena (Audia & Greve, 2006; Cyert & March, 1963).”
Managerial Risk Taking (2016, neutral): “In this literature, managerial risk taking has been operationalized as acquisitions (Audia & Greve, 2006; Greve, 2008, 2011; Iyer & Miller, 2008; J. Y. Kim, Finkelstein, & Haleblian, 2015), entrance into new markets (Barreto, 2012), innovation (Chen, 2008; Chen & Miller, 2007; Gaba & Bhattacharya,…”