A Behavioral Theory of Firm Growth: Sequential Attention to Size and Performance Goals

By Henrich R. Greve. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Strategy and Management

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Strategic goal accomplishment in export ventures: the role of capabilities, knowledge, and environment (2018, background): “In organization theory and practice, goals are hierarchical in nature (e.g., Greve 2008; Shinkle 2012).”
A Terminal Assessment of Stages Theory: Introducing a Dynamic States Approach to Entrepreneurship (2010, unknown): “In major entrepreneurship textbooks, the stages approach is by far the most popular tool for teaching about business growth in entrepreneurship, even though other models of business growth exist (Bhidé, 2000; Greve, 2008; O’Farrell & Hitchins, 1988; Schoonhoven & Romanelli, 2001; Van de Ven & Poole,”
Attentional Triangulation: Learning from Unexpected Rare Crises (2009, unknown): “cate attention to other issues (Greve 2008).”
An Attention‐Based View of Family Firm Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change: Exploring the Role of Family CEOs' Noneconomic Goals (2015, background): “While an abundant body of literature indicates that organizational actors often pursue various goals (Cyert and March, 1963), the effect of goals other than profitability on CEOs’ attention has largely been neglected (cf. Greve, 2008).”
A Behavioral Theory of Social Performance: Social Identity and Stakeholder Expectations (2017, background): “Weembed logic of attention to financial goals in firm concernswith legitimacy and efficiency, but further exploration of how firms manage social performance goals alongside multiple financial and survival goals is likely to be generative for future theorizing (Arora & Dharwadkar, 2011; Greve, 2008; ”
Back to basics: Behavioral theory and internationalization (2020, background): “The goals that tend to trigger the most diverse forms of search, and the strongest responses, are profitability and closely related goals such as market share (Greve, 2008; Shinkle, 2012).”
Attention to Attention (2011, methodology): “Attentional selectivity is the resulting outcome of sequential attention to alternative aspiration levels, as well as attentional engagement that results in guided search (Greve 2008).”
Contradictory yet Coherent? Inconsistency in Performance Feedback and R&D Investment Change (2018, background): “This fits with the sequential attention-to-goals argument of Cyert and March (1963) stating that an aspiration–performance discrepancy becomes and remains relevant only insofar that it indicates a problem—that is, when it is negative (Greve, 2003c, 2008).”
Organizational Structure, Information Processing, and Decision-Making: A Retrospective and Road Map for Research (2020, background): “In the literature on adaptation, for example, theories of performance feedback propose that attention to goals is sequential and basedon the need to resolve pressing problemsor to close gaps between performance and aspirations (e.g., Cyert & March, 1963; Gaba & Bhattacharya, 2012; Greve, 2008).”