Multiple corporate and functional performance feedback and problemistic search
研究了决策者如何根据多个职能绩效反馈的简单性和可预测性来引导问题导向搜索，以应对企业绩效下滑，基于97家制药企业的数据发现简单可预测的职能信号能增强绩效差与新产品开发项目数之间的正向关系。
Abstract In this study, we examine how decision makers assess and respond to more than two performance feedback regarding goals across different hierarchical levels. Building on Cyert and March's seminal work and later research on pattern perception, we argue that pattern simplicity and pattern predictability of multiple (functional) feedback help decision makers to better guide problemistic search and generate more plausible solutions to fix a serious corporate performance shortfall. In a longitudinal sample of 97 global incumbent pharmaceutical firms, we find that a simpler and more predictable set of functional performance signals strengthens the relationship between poor performance on a corporate goal (i.e., ROA) and the number of functional solutions (i.e., number of new product development projects) that a firm initiates. We discuss the implications of our findings to the performance feedback and managerial search literature.