Organizational Goals: Antecedents, Formation Processes, and Implications for Firm Behavior
综述了组织目标的理论与实证研究，构建了分析框架，强调目标的多样性、前因、后果及情境与反馈的作用，为理解组织目标如何影响企业行为与绩效提供研究议程。
The existence of definite organizational goals is a longstanding and central premise in organization and management research, yet a reexamination of this body of knowledge is timely and long overdue.Many important aspects of organizational goals have received very fragmented attention and there has been little prior attempt to synthesize and compare the effects of these different goals on firm behavior and performance.We present a review of existing theoretical and empirical evidence on organizational goals, and develop an analytical framework emphasizing the variety of organizational goals, their attributes, antecedents and outcomes, the role of context and feedback loops.Drawing on this framework we set out an agenda for further research aimed at advancing current understanding of organizational goals and implications for firm behavior and performance.