Setting the “right” goal: post M&A innovation performance and goal orientation
Business: Theory and Practice, 2020 Pharmaceutical firms spend billions of dollars to develop the next breakthrough drug and to maintain their market shares. We investigate how pharmaceutical firms use mergers and acquisitions to boost their innovation performance which has been found to ...
Trang Thu Doan
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How and When Telework Improves Job Performance During COVID-19? Job Crafting as Mediator and Performance Goal Orientation as Moderator [PDF]
Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2021 Longjun Liu,1 Wenhai Wan,2 Qing Fan3 1School of Business, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, People’s Republic of China; 3School of Management, Shanghai University ...
Liu L, Wan W, Fan Q
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Goal Orientation and Academic Performance in Adult Distance Education
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018 Research has shown the importance of goal orientation in predicting academic performance for children, adolescents, and college students in traditional educational settings.
Joyce Neroni +4 more
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Cumulative ecological risk and problematic smartphone use among Chinese college students: the roles of performance goal orientation, learning goal orientation and psychological resilience [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyProblematic smartphone use (PSU) has emerged as a pressing concern among college students, with cumulative ecological risk identified as a crucial yet enigmatic contributor.
Jinliang Guan +3 more
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Culture, goal orientation and achievement of vocational college students [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThis study explored the relationship between cultural values, goal orientation, and mathematics achievement in mainland China.MethodsStructural equation modelling was used to analyze data collected from 1,004 first-year students of four ...
Xuefei Lin +5 more
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Goal Orientation and the Presence of Competitors Influence Cycling Performance [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate time-trial (TT) performance in the presence of one competitor and in a group with competitors of various abilities.Methods: In a randomized order, 24 participants performed a 5-km cycling TT ...
Andrew W. Hibbert +5 more
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Cognitive and Psychological Characteristics and EFL Learners’ Test Performance: A Validity Study [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2022 Language learners' test performance is affected by individual attributes that are not part of test takers’ language ability (Bachman, 1990). The identification of such factors and the study of their association/impact with/on EFL learners' test ...
Mohammad Ahmadi Safa +1 more
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The Influence of Creative Personality and Goal Orientation on Innovation Performance
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The complexity and challenges of the external environment accelerate the awakening of the new generation of enterprise employees’ self-consciousness. Facing the continuous expansion of the information-based work mode, the traditional management mechanism
Keqiucheng Zhou
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A Class Practice Study of Intervention Effect of Interactive Assessment on Learning Goal Orientation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 While focusing on the moderating effects of initial performance-approach goal orientation and performance-avoidance goal orientation, this study aimed to examine the effects of self- and peer-assessment on the growth of learning goal orientation.
Mai Yokoyama +2 more
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Do goal orientations really influence performance?
International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 2022 PurposeThe creativity of retail employees seems to be of the utmost importance for ensuring the performance of organizations in service settings. This paper contributes to the existing theory by investigating the direct and indirect effects of goal orientations on the creativity and performance of retail employees.
Carlos M.P. Sousa +2 more
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