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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Top Management Team (TMT)"”.
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(International) top managers – Strategic implications for innovativeness, risk and digital transformation
… investigates the role and implications of top managers in firms. By building on two influential contemporary phenomena – internationalization and digitalization – and by examining top managers from a multitude of conceptional and methodological angles, the dissertation provides novel …
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Top Management Team Attention To The Threats From Technological Disasters: Evidence From Polluters In The S&P 1500
… This phenomenon indicates that the absence of top management team (TMT) attention to natural environmental issues leads a firm to control-reducing and likely-loss threats, but less is known about whether firms engage in environmental actions in response to technological disasters and why some …
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Essays On The Role Of Competitor-Specific Human Capital On Initial Public Offerings (ipos) Performance
… how these two types of human capital held by IPO Top Management Team (TMT) members are associated with IPO performance. Furthermore, by utilizing research on human capital, competitive dynamics, and knowledge-based view of the firm, this dissertation identifies important antecedents that result in …
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Predicting the Presence of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) on Top Management Teams and the Moderating Influence of CMO Presence on the Relationship Between Firm Visibility, Market Power, and Industry Orientation and Firm Performance
… a chief marketing officer (CMO) to the top management team (TMT). However, scholarly research on the presence or absence of a CMO, and the relationship between the presence of a CMO on the TMT and firm performance is nascent and conflicting. Thus, the purpose of these studies was to …
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An exploration of the determinants of innovation:the top management team, organisational climate and organisational learning
Some researchers argue that the top team, rather than the CEO, is a better predictor of an organisation’s fate (Finkelstein & Hambrick, 1996; Knight et al., 1999). However, others suggest that the importance of the top management team (TMT) composition literature is exaggerated (West & Schwenk, …
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The Upper-Echelon Perspective of Firm Competitive Behavior: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
… much less is understood on how the Upper-Echelon team drives the actual competitive behavior of the firm, which is manifested in the launching of observable and purposeful competitive actions within the marketplace. Considering that competitive behavior research tends to overlook the importance of …
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The role of SEW and TMT behaviours in family business innovation: Evidence from China
… innovation inputs and outputs, and the role of top management team (TMT) behaviours during the conversion from innovation inputs to outputs. Based on a mixed-method study, this thesis investigates the mechanism of the innovation process using quantitative survey data from 473 Chinese …
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An Examination of the Influence of Top Executives on Entrepreneurial Orientation
… collection of essays examines the influence that top executives have on the level of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) within an organization. EO is defined as the degree to which a firm exhibits behaviors and managerial philosophies that are innovative, proactive and risk-taking. EO is an …
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Microfoundations of Strategy: Enriching the Psychological Underpinnings of Upper Echelons
… the psychological mechanism through which top management team (TMT) gender diversity lends strategic advantages to firms. The findings reveal a unique interpersonal mechanism (TMT psychological safety) that mediates the positive effect of TMT gender diversity on firm ambidexterity. This …
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Eudaimonic career identities – Finnish executive women’s career navigation at the top management level
… executive women’s career progression to the top organisational level. This research integrates a missing element—the concept of eudaimonia—into a career identity model, which comprises the enablers of executive careers. The findings suggest how executive women’s career identities are …
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THE IMPACT OF EXECUTIVES WITH SUPPLY CHAIN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE ON THE FIRM’S SUPPLY PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT AND INVENTORY INVESTMENTS
… on the influence of supply chain and operations management executives on the firm’s supply chain strategies. Essay 1 focuses on the differences in the supply chain and operations management role and investigates how these differences impact the firm’s supplier portfolio management strategies. …