This paper analyses the impact of variations of product demand on the amount of internal slack in multi-plant firms in …. In such a model, the amount of slack in the firm is shown to be pro-cyclical. Indeed, as capacity constraints become … tighter in booms, slack increases in booms, because the power of in-house competition is reduced, while the opposite is true …

the slack and performance link by: examining the slack and performance relationship using a configurational approach and … analysis, ANCOVA, and means comparisons this study identifies different configurations of slack and their associated … performance implications. Findings – The results show that configurations with higher levels of slack outperform those with lower …

innovation strategies and investigate the moderating effect of contextual factor (i.e. organizational slack) on such relations … organizational slack can promote such processes. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a survey with 163 valid … perceiving control-reducing threats. Furthermore, unabsorbed slack (e.g. financial redundancy) positively moderates both …