Mezias, Stephen J.; Chen, Ya-Ru; Murphy, Patrice R. - In: Management Science 48 (2002) 10, pp. 1285-1300
Using field data from an American financial services organization, we examined the effects of three important variables in Cyert and March's (1963) initial conceptualization of the aspiration-level adaptation process: The previous aspiration level, performance feedback, and social comparison....