Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior

By Wei-Ru Chen. Organ. Sci., 2008

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Subfields: Finance, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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A Behavioral Theory of Social Performance: Social Identity and Stakeholder Expectations (2017, background): “Rather than assuming that a reference point is a static benchmark that is selected by the firm and sequentially adapted from year to year (Chen, 2008; Chrisman & Patel, 2012), or an empirically driven weight of referents (Greve, 2003, 2007, 2008), we conceptualize reference point formation as a…”
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.”
Contradictory yet Coherent? Inconsistency in Performance Feedback and R&D Investment Change (2018, methodology): “In empirical analyses, they were sometimes treated as interchangeable (Chen, 2008; Chen & Miller, 2007) while in other studies only a single one is discussed and/or operationalized (Antonelli, 1989; Lant & Montgomery, 1987; Salge, 2011).”
The paradox of openness: Appropriability, external search and collaboration (2014, background): “Indeed, firms invest considerable amounts of time, money and other resources in their search for these opportunities (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990; Chen, 2008).”
To Merge, Sell, or Liquidate? Socioemotional Wealth, Family Control, and the Choice of Business Exit (2019, unknown): “Following Chen (2008), we standardized these two measures and summed them to obtain a general slack index.”
Management Theory Applications of Prospect Theory: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Opportunities (2011, unknown): “PT predicts individuals’ choices in decisions that involve risk. In developing the theory, Kahneman and Tversky (1979) relied on controlled experiments that offered individuals choices between alternatives, each of which contained possible outcomes and their respective probabilities of occurrence. B”