THE PARADOX OF STRETCH GOALS: ORGANIZATIONS IN PURSUIT OF THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE

By Sim B. Sitkin, Kelly E. See, C. Miller, M. Lawless, Andrew M. Carton, Bettina Buechel, Richard M. Burton, Laura B. Cardinal, Christina Fang, John Joseph and 7 more. 2011

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Jonathan R. Crawshaw
2. Russell S. Cropanzano

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Success Traps, Dynamic Capabilities and Firm Performance (2015, unknown): “Success generates optimism, enthusiasm and commitment (March and Olsen, 1976; Weick, 1984; Sitkin et al., 2011), resulting in increased feelings of self-efficacy (Audia et al., 2000) and the likelihood of complacency (Miller and Chen, 2004).”
• Organizational justice: New insights from behavioural ethics (2013, background): “Stretch goals are by definition extremely difficult (if not impossible) and/or extremely novel (Sitkin et al., 2011).”