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Slack resources and firm performance: a meta-analysis☆

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This article employed a meta-analysis based on 80 samples from 66 studies (n=54,249) and found evidence of a positive relationship among all three slack types (i.e., available, recoverable, and potential) and financial performance.
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This article is published in Journal of Business Research.The article was published on 2004-06-01. It has received 427 citations till now.

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The essential guide to effect sizes : statistical power, meta-analysis, and the interpretation of research results

TL;DR: This book discusses effect sizes, meta-Analysis, and the interpretation of results in the context of meta-analysis, which addresses the role of sample sizes in the analysis of power research.
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Is innovation always beneficial? A meta-analysis of the relationship between innovation and performance in SMEs

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis synthesizes empirical findings in order to obtain evidence whether and especially under which circumstances smaller, resource-scarce firms benefit from innovation, and they find that the innovation-performance relationship is context dependent.
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Does it Pay to Be Good...And Does it Matter? A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance

TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analysis of 251 studies presented in 214 manuscripts and found that the overall effect is positive but small (mean r =.13, median r = 0.09, weighted r = 1.11), and results for the 106 studies from the past decade are even smaller.
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The Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing Effect in Management

TL;DR: The too-much-of-a-good-thing effect (TMGT) as discussed by the authors is a meta-theoretical principle that suggests that antecedent variables widely accepted as leading to desirable consequences actually lead to negative outcomes.
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Making sense of conflicting empirical findings: A meta-analytic review of the relationship between corporate environmental and financial performance

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analytic analysis of 149 studies on the relationship between corporate environmental performance (CEP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) is presented, showing that there is a positive and partially bidirectional relationship between CEP and CFP.
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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The theory of the growth of the firm

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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of basic concepts in the Behavioral Theory of the Firm, and present a specific price and output model for a specific type of products. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two concepts.