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On the Measurement of Organizational Slack
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According to various writers, organizational slack serves to reduce goal conflict, to reduce information processing needs, to promote political behavior, or to facilitate certain strategic behaviors. The salient feature is that the slack construct is usually discussed without a concurrent attempt at empirical measurement. In this article I propose several operational measures, and develop one that allows the use of secondary (financial) data.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bourgeois, L. J.
- Venue
- Academy of Management Review
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 1981-01-01
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 29-39
- ISSN
- 0363-7425 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2007893250
- Cited by
- 1,545
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 11.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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