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Organzational Slack and the Productive Opportunity of Growing Technology Firms

Journal of Leadership and Management

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Title Organzational Slack and the Productive Opportunity of Growing Technology Firms
 
Creator Neck, Heidi M.
Neck, Christopher P.; Department of Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
 
Description This research focuses on the growth of entrepreneurial firms, specifically young, high technology IPO firms.  We seek to empirically support Edith Penrose’s (1959) theory that the growth of the firm is a function of its changing productive opportunity. Understanding the factors that can expand the productive opportunity of the firm will enhance our understanding of firm growth. We posit that organizational slack is a change agent that will affect the relationship between the productive opportunity of a firm and its subsequent growth. Findings show support for the hypothesized moderating role of slack in the productive opportunity to firm growth relationship; however, the moderating effect is consistently negative.
 
Publisher Institute of Leadership in Management
 
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Date 2014-12-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/33
 
Source Journal of Leadership and Management; Vol 2, No 2 (2014): Journal of Leadership and Management
2391-6087
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/33/15
 
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