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Although organizational slack research posits various relationships between a firm’s slack and performance, findings to date have been ambiguous. In order to provide insight into this relationship, This paper studies the impact of organizational slack on the performance of mechanical manufacturing firms by using empirical analysis based on the data get from 89 firms in Henan Province. The result shows that organizational slack is positively related to the performance of mechanical manufacturing firms. Thus keeping more slack is more conducive to promoting performance in mechanical manufacturing firms. In addition, the analysis also finds that there is the nonlinear relationship between organizational slack and performance, but this relationship is not significant. Overall, results highlight the importance of additional research into intervening factors impacting the slack–performance relationship.
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Zhong, H. (2012). The Impact of Organizational Slack on the Performance of Mechanical Manufacturing Firms. In: Jin, D., Lin, S. (eds) Advances in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31507-7_9
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