Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Functional background"”.
-
TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM HETEROGENEITIES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF BOARD COMPOSITION
… tenure heterogeneity, educational heterogeneity, functional background heterogeneity, and firm performance. Fortune 500 companies were chosen as the sample of the study. I utilized moderated hierarchical regression to analyze the data. The results do not support the predictions. Several …
-
Leadership Vacillation as a Pattern of CEO Succession: Existence, Antecedents, Boundary Conditions, and Performance Implications
… choices, meaning that a departing leader's functional background has an impact on that of a successor. Knowledge of the phenomenon of leadership vacillation, which has not been explored in previous research, contributes to CEO succession studies in specific and to organization and strategy …
-
Essays On The Role Of Competitor-Specific Human Capital On Initial Public Offerings (ipos) Performance
… shared team-specific experience, and CEO's functional background influence the relationship between CSD and CSI human capital and IPO performance.</p>
-
Engineering a leader : technical career paths to the executive suite
This thesis will identify what career paths, advanced degrees, and supportive industries best enable engineers and other highly technical professionals to move past middle management layers into executive leadership. Specific questions to be addressed include: 1. Which technical degrees most often …
-
An Examination of the Influence of Top Executives on Entrepreneurial Orientation
… the more heterogeneous the team in industry and functional background the greater the organization’s EO. It is further argued that the level of education completed by the top management team will have a positive relationship with EO. Industry-level managerial discretion (managerial discretion) is …