All Aspirations are not Created Equal: The Differential Effects of Historical and Social Aspirations on Acquisition Behavior

By Ji-Yub Kim, Sydney Finkelstein, Jerayr Haleblian. 2014

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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• Managerial Risk Taking (2016, unknown): “Chen (2008), Chen and Miller (2007), and J. Y. Kim et al. (2015) show that historical and social aspirations may have opposite effects, whereby risk taking increases when the firm’s performance is above historical aspirations but decreases when performance is above social aspirations.”
• The Pre-Deal Phase of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, background): “Behavioral theory explanations of M&A posit that attainment discrepancy can also lead to M&A (Iyer & Miller, 2008; J. Kim et al., 2015; Kuusela, Keil, & Maula, 2017).”