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The impact of absorbed and unabsorbed slack on firm profitability: Implications for resource redeployment

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This paper undertakes an empirical analysis of the impact of absorbed and unabsorbed slack, employing three different measures for each slack type, on firm profitability. We find that unabsorbed slack has a more favorable influence on future firm profitability than absorbed slack. While all the absorbed slack indicators have a significant negative influence on future profitability, the three unabsorbed slack indicators present positive, negative, and non-significant influences, respectively. The fewer constraints of unabsorbed slack on the redeployment to exploit new opportunities point to its comparative advantage over absorbed slack. We find evidence for the differential impact of absorbed versus unabsorbed slack on profitability in firms with lower levels of slack, which suggests firms prefer to withdraw resources from current business and redeploy them to develop new and more favorable business opportunities.

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ARGILÉS BOSCH, Josep m., GARCÍA BLANDÓN, Josep, MARTÍNEZ BLASCO, Mònica. The impact of absorbed and unabsorbed slack on firm profitability: Implications for resource redeployment. _Advances in Strategic Management_. 2016. Vol. 35, núm. 371-395. [consulta: 9 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0742-3322. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/150817]

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