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Organizational Goals: Antecedents, Formation Processes, and Implications for Firm Behavior
Author(s) -
Josip Kotlar,
Alfredo De Massis,
Mike Wright,
Federico Frattini
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of management reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.475
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1468-2370
pISSN - 1460-8545
DOI - 10.1111/ijmr.12079
Subject(s) - citation , public relations , marketing , sociology , business , political science , law
The existence of definite organizational goals is a longstanding and central premise in organization and management research. It is more than 50 years since Cyert and March’s (1963) study on the behavioral theory of the firm and more than 30 years since Fama and Jensen’s (1983) work on the effects of differences in goals arising from variety of ownership and control. Although several decades have passed since the publication of these seminal studies, many aspects of organizational goals, especially those related to their antecedents and to the processes through which they are formed and become manifest in organizations, have received very fragmented theoretical treatment, and are thus only loosely integrated in organization theories. Therefore, there is a need to reassess the concept of organizational goals and their implications for firm behavior.