Deviant versus Aspirational Risk Taking: The Effects of Performance Feedback on Bribery Expenditure and R&D Intensity

By Dean Xu, Kevin Zheng Zhou, F. Du. Academy of Management Journal, 2019

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Combining the theses of “problemistic search” and “slack search,” past research in the behavioral theory of the firm suggests that both low- and high-performing firms may engage in the same type of...

Subfields: Accounting, Sociology and Political Science

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• Organizational responses to performance feedback: A meta-analytic review (2019, background): “For instance, several empirical studies have found that different performance feedback conditions can affect risk-taking, strategic change, and investment and divestment in quite different ways (Kacperczyk et al., 2014; Kuusela et al., 2017; Xu et al., 2019).”