Slack and financial performance in SMEs : slack discretion, family ownership, and hi-tech sectors

Minola, Tommaso; Bau, Massimo; DeMassis, Alfredo; Chirico, Francesco; Sieger, Philipp (August 2017). Slack and financial performance in SMEs : slack discretion, family ownership, and hi-tech sectors. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Atlanta, USA. 10.5465/ambpp.2017.16406abstract

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Following intensive recent debates, the literature still offers ambiguous results on the ultimate effect of slack resources on firm performance, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We address this gap by examining how two different types of slack resources (high- and low-discretion slack) affect firm performance and how these relationships are moderated by family ownership and by operating in a high-tech industry. Using a sample of 8,345 Italian SME we show that slack is not always beneficial to firm performance and that the slack-performance relationship is contingent on both internal and external factors.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Innovation Management > Management
UniBE Contributor:	Sieger, Philipp
Subjects:	600 Technology > 650 Management & public relations
Language:	English
Submitter:	Philipp Sieger
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2018 14:45
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:16
Publisher DOI:	10.5465/ambpp.2017.16406abstract
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/118337