Reeling in the Slack: An Integrative Review to Reinstate Slack as a Central Theoretical Construct for Management Research

MP Mount, G Ertug, K Kavusan… - … of Management Annals, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Slack is a prominent construct in management research, and has been shown to be relevant
for a wide range of phenomena. Yet, despite slack's prominence and breadth of application …

Problem solving or responsibility avoidance? The role of CEO internal attribution tendency in shaping corporate downsizing in response to performance shortfalls

W Shi, G Chen, B Li - Journal of Management Studies, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines how CEOs' internal attribution tendency–to attribute an observed
outcome to internal factors–shapes the extent to which corporate downsizing activities are …

Entrepreneurial orientation and environmental hostility: A threat rigidity perspective

PM Kreiser, BS Anderson… - … Theory and Practice, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We posit that environmental hostility exhibits an inverse U-shaped relationship with a firm's
entrepreneurial orientation. We suggest a nuanced perspective on the threat rigidity …

Portfolio spillover of institutional investor activism: An awareness–motivation–capability perspective

W Shi, BL Connelly, RE Hoskisson… - Academy of …, 2020 - journals.aom.org
Scholars have investigated how shareholder activism by institutional investors—
organizations that manage money on behalf of clients—directly shapes the actions of firms …

Quantifying organisational resilience: an integrated resource efficiency view

SCL Koh, K Suresh, P Ralph… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Organisations are increasingly exposed to risks from globally disruptive events, triggering
interest and new research into organisational resilience. Several levers to increase …

Customer concentration, executive attention, and firm search behavior

W Zhong, Z Ma, TW Tong, Y Zhang… - Academy of Management …, 2021 - journals.aom.org
It is unclear why, despite the increasing emphasis on innovation in modern business, firms
are still myopic in their search efforts. Although prior studies have examined the role of …

A bibliometric review on institutional investor: current status, development and future directions

L Ding, Z Zhao, L Wang - Management Decision, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose In order to further understand the research status and prospect, the purpose of this
paper is to adopt a novel method in the research field of institutional investor to depict the …

Better safe than sorry: CEO regulatory focus and workplace safety

C Qian, P Balaji, D Crilly, Y Liu - Journal of Management, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Research shows that CEOs who are sensitive to maximizing gains (promotion focus)
engage in more socially oriented initiatives, while CEOs who are sensitive to avoiding …

Hedge fund investor activism and human capital loss

G Chen, P Meyer‐Doyle, W Shi - Strategic Management …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary: Prior research suggests that hedge fund activism can benefit targeted
firms. We explore a potential negative side‐effect of hedge fund activism: the unwanted loss …

Performance feedback, financial slack and the innovation behavior of firms

LH Lu, PK Wong - Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Building on Cyert and March's (1963) behavioral theory of the firm, we investigate
how firms adjust their exploratory and exploitative innovation activities in response to …