Renewing research on problemistic search—A review and research agenda

HE Posen, T Keil, S Kim… - Academy of Management …, 2018 - journals.aom.org
Problemistic search theory, with its roots in the Carnegie School tradition, describes a
behaviorally plausible process by which firms learn from performance feedback. A firm's …

Organizational aspirations, reference points, and goals: Building on the past and aiming for the future

GA Shinkle - Journal of management, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Three distinct frameworks have been advanced by scholars to analyze organizational
aspirations: behavioral theory, Ansoff's strategic management view, and strategic reference …

[HTML][HTML] Driving forces and barriers of Industry 4.0: Do multinational and small and medium-sized companies have equal opportunities?

D Horváth, RZ Szabó - Technological forecasting and social change, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fourth Industrial Revolution poses significant challenges to manufacturing
companies from the technological, organizational and management points of view. This …

How firms make information technology investment decisions: Toward a behavioral agency theory

JQ Dong, PP Karhade, A Rai, SX Xu - Journal of Management …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
While prior research has established that information technology (IT) investment has a
significant impact on firm performance, relatively few studies have provided insights into the …

Exploring institutional pressures, firm green slack, green product innovation and green new product success: Evidence from Taiwan's high-tech industries

YC Huang, CT Chen - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Though the Porter win-win hypothesis has dominated the extant research in the green field,
the results of previous studies have been mixed. Many studies have also used the construct …

Driven by aspirations, but in what direction? Performance shortfalls, slack resources, and resource‐consuming vs. resource‐freeing organizational change

P Kuusela, T Keil, M Maula - Strategic management journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary: Prior literature drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm has not
considered how resource constraints impact the direction of organizational change in …

Gender diversity on the board of directors and corporate risk: A behavioural agency theory perspective

J Poletti-Hughes, GC Briano-Turrent - International Review of Financial …, 2019 - Elsevier
The benefit of gender diversity on the board of directors is a subject of current debate. We
contribute to the literature on diversity and its impact on businesses from an analytical …

Slack resources, firm performance, and the institutional context: Evidence from privately held E uropean firms

T Vanacker, V Collewaert… - Strategic management …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary: Integrating the behavioral and institutional perspectives, we propose
that a country's formal institutions, particularly its legal frameworks, affect managers' …

Explorative versus exploitative business model change: the cognitive antecedents of firm‐level responses to disruptive innovation

O Osiyevskyy, J Dewald - Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a typology of incumbent adaptations to emerging disruptive business model
innovations, based on two generic strategies:(1) explorative adoption of a disruptive …

Socioemotional wealth and business risks in family-controlled firms: Evidence from Spanish olive oil mills

LR Gómez-Mejía, KT Haynes… - Administrative …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper challenges the prevalent notion that family-owned firms are more risk averse
than publicly owned firms. Using behavioral theory, we argue that for family firms, the …