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absorbed slack: a standalone construct

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Strategic management

excess costs already tied up in the organization, such as overhead, that can be recovered only through redesign, contrasted with uncommitted slack.

In strategic management, absorbed slack refers to excess costs already tied up in the organization, such as overhead, that can be recovered only through redesign, contrasted with uncommitted slack. This meaning comes from Singh (1986) in Academy of Management Journal.[1]

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unabsorbed slack1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct slack3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Singh, J. V. (1986). Performance, Slack, and Risk Taking in Organizational Decision Making. Academy of Management Journal, 29(3), 562-585. https://doi.org/10.2307/256224

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