Positional rigidity: low performance and resource acquisition in large and small firms

By Henrich R. Greve. 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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CEOs’ Regulatory Focus and Risk-Taking When Firms Perform Below and Above the Bar (2021, background): “…are not so clear cut since research has found evidence to suggest that performance below aspirations can lead to inconsistent risk preferences to those predicted by BTOF based on other organizational factors, such as firm size and organizational slack (e.g., Greve, 2010; Wiseman & Bromiley, 1996).”
Managerial Risk Taking (2016, unknown): “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,…”
How marketing capabilities and current performance drive strategic intentions in international markets (2017, background): “Performance feedback theory views current performance compared to aspirations as the main driver of firms' strategic intentions (Greve, 2010; Lant, Milliken, & Batra, 1992).”
Entrepreneurial alertness as a pathway to strategic decisions and organizational performance (2018, background): “Rather than succumbing to inaction and paralysis, the BTF suggests that decision makers may be motivated to engage in a problemistic search for alternatives (Greve, 2010) and prompt them to implement new activities that challenge the status quo (Ketchen and Palmer, 1999).”
Motivation and Ability? A Behavioral Perspective on the Pursuit of Radical Invention in Multi-Technology Incumbents (2017, unknown): “Beyond a point, such underperformance may cause managerial focus to shift from adaptation to survival, and this may lead to threat-rigidity (Greve, 2011; March & Shapira, 1992; Staw, Sandelands, & Dutton, 1981).”
Entrepreneurs’ human capital and growth aspirations: the moderating role of regional entrepreneurial culture (2019, background): “Research on this topic could benefit from the large literature on the strategic management field that has studied the influence of performance feedback on strategic decision making (e.g. Greve 2010).”
Organizational responses to performance feedback: A meta-analytic review (2019, background): “Yet, larger firms are also suggested to be more inert and rigid, due to increased hierarchy and complexity, leading to lower sensitivity to performance feedback (Chen and Hambrick, 1995; Greve, 2010).”