The silence of the slacked: The negative side effect of slack on problemistic search
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Organizational slack is associated with various positive effects on the organization. By focusing on slack’s cushioning property, which shields the firm from external adversities, this article discusses how slack can also mute important external stimuli for problemistic search and increase adverse self-enhancement effects when an organization performs below aspirations. We use panel data on publicly traded firms to test how shareholder voice affects problemistic search and how slack negatively moderates this relationship. We also show that problemistic search suffers more in self-enhancing firms as a firm’s slack increases. We contribute to the behavioral theory of the firm by unfolding the negative side of slack and demonstrating how differentiation between internal and external coalition perspectives unfolds new sides of this concept. JEL Classification: L20, M10
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it