Organizational Slack Scale

What it measures

Measures the availability of excess organizational resources that can be rapidly mobilized for new strategic initiatives. Higher scores indicate more available organizational slack. Used as a control variable to account for firm resources and market power.

Representative items

• We have uncommitted resources that can be used to fund strategic initiatives at short notice.
• We will have no problems obtaining resources at short notice to support new strategic initiatives.

Citation

De Luca, L.M. & Atuahene-Gima, K. (2007). Market knowledge dimensions and cross-functional collaboration: Examining the different routes to product innovation performance. Journal of Marketing, 71(1), 95–112.