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unabsorbed slack: a standalone construct

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Strategic management

excess, uncommitted resources such as liquid funds that managers can readily redeploy, linked in research to risk taking and performance.

In strategic management, unabsorbed slack refers to excess, uncommitted resources such as liquid funds that managers can readily redeploy, linked in research to risk taking and performance. This meaning comes from Singh (1986) in Academy of Management Journal.[1]

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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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