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Microfoundations of Organizational Goals: A Review and New Directions for Future Research
Author(s) -
Linder Stefan,
Foss Nicolai J
Publication year - 2018
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.12154
Subject(s) - microfoundations , extant taxon , perspective (graphical) , organizational studies , affect (linguistics) , knowledge management , sociology , organizational commitment , business , political science , public relations , economics , computer science , macroeconomics , communication , artificial intelligence , evolutionary biology , biology
Organizational goals are central in management theory, yet our understanding of their antecedents, formation and dynamics, and consequences contains many gaps, in particular concerning the microfoundations of how goals are formed and changed and through which they may affect individual and organizational performance. We distill a number of key themes in the extant literature, use the microfoundations perspective to isolate research gaps, and suggest a microfoundational framework for future research on organizational goals. Subsequently, we discuss the theories that are particularly promising with respect to furthering such research on organizational goals.