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A cautionary tale: Lessons from the strategic use of financial reporting (2023)
Book Chapter
Lucas, G. J. M., & Klangboonkrong, T. (2023). A cautionary tale: Lessons from the strategic use of financial reporting. In Measuring sustainability and CSR: From reporting to decision-making (133-140). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26959-2_13

Sustainability and CSR reporting has been undergoing a rapid development due to the increasing relevance of sustainability and CSR considerations for investors and other stakeholders. As sustainability and CSR reporting develops a similar level of so... Read More about A cautionary tale: Lessons from the strategic use of financial reporting.

Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data (2022)
Journal Article
Delios, A., Clemente, E. G., Wu, T., Tan, H., Wang, Y., Gordon, M., …Uhlmann, E. L. (2022). Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(30), Article e2120377119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120377119

This initiative examined systematically the extent to which a large set of archival research findings generalizes across contexts. We repeated the key analyses for 29 original strategic management effects in the same context (direct reproduction) as... Read More about Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data.

Creating value: value co-creation and value destruction (2018)
Journal Article
Stokes, P., Mahajan, G., Lucas, G. J., & Hughes, P. (2018). Creating value: value co-creation and value destruction. Global Focus - the EFMD Business Magazine, 12(2), 44-47

Historically, value has been understood largely in economic terms centred on, for example, notions of price, cost, profits and shareholder wealth. However, contemporary understandings of value also point at value being created through and around prod... Read More about Creating value: value co-creation and value destruction.

The effect of organizational performance feedback on team attention focus (2016)
Book Chapter
Lucas, G. J. M., Zijlmans, M. H. M., Meeus, M. T. H., & Blettner, D. P. (2016). The effect of organizational performance feedback on team attention focus. In K. J. Sund, R. J. Galavan, & A. S. Huff (Eds.), Uncertainty and Strategic Decision Making, 171-190. Emerald

In this chapter, we present a theory on how organizational performance feedback influences individual decision-maker cognitions and thereby changes a team’s attention focus in terms of strategy. We argue that when performance compares unfavorably to... Read More about The effect of organizational performance feedback on team attention focus.

Cognitive synergy in groups and group-to-individual transfer of decision-making competencies (2015)
Journal Article
Curseu, P., Meslec, M., Pluut, H., & Lucas, G. (2015). Cognitive synergy in groups and group-to-individual transfer of decision-making competencies. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01375

In a field study (148 participants organized in 38 groups) we tested the effect of group synergy and one’s position in relation to the collaborative zone of proximal development (CZPD) on the change of individual decision-making competencies. We used... Read More about Cognitive synergy in groups and group-to-individual transfer of decision-making competencies.

Contradictory yet coherent?: inconsistency in performance feedback and R&D investment change (2015)
Journal Article
Lucas, G., Knoben, J., & Meeus, M. (2018). Contradictory yet coherent?: inconsistency in performance feedback and R&D investment change. Journal of Management, 44(2), (658-681). doi:10.1177/0149206315584821. ISSN 0149-2063

In this paper, we study to what extent inconsistent feedback signals about performance affect firm adaptive behavior in terms of changes made to research-and-development (R&D) investments. We argue that inconsistency in performance feedback—based on... Read More about Contradictory yet coherent?: inconsistency in performance feedback and R&D investment change.

The influence of organizational performance feedback on the focus of attention (2015)
Journal Article
Lucas, G. J., Zijlmans, M. H., Meeus, M. T., & Blettner, D. P. (2015). The influence of organizational performance feedback on the focus of attention. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2015.18120abstract

In this paper we build a multi-level theory of how organizational performance feedback impacts individual decision-maker cognitions resulting in change of the focus of attention to strategic areas at the Top Management Team level. Specifically, we ar... Read More about The influence of organizational performance feedback on the focus of attention.