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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"top management team"”.
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Antecedents and Consequences of Top Management Team Characteristics
This study examines the effects of top management teams (TMTs) on firm performance while adjusting for the endogeneity. The theoretical model proposes that (1) TMT characteristics are influenced by environment, organizational, and leadership (CEO) characteristics, (2) TMT characteristics …
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SOCIAL CAPITAL AND DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES IN A TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM
<p>Top management teams greatly influence the performance of their organizations based on their interpretations of the situations they face and the decisions they make built on those interpretations.<strong> </strong>In addition, the long-term success of the organization relies upon the top …
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TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM HETEROGENEITIES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF BOARD COMPOSITION
… characteristics on the relationships between top management team heterogeneities and firm performance but has given little attention to the moderating role of board composition. This study examines the moderating effects of the proportion of outside board membership on the relationships …
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Managing Identities in Managed Care: Top -Management -Team Responses to Organizational Complexity and Change
… movement. In particular, I focus on the identity management strategies and mechanisms employed by the top management team in a large, physician-owned, integrated delivery system, using the Pratt and Foreman (2000) classification scheme as a reference point. Through a 18-month-long ethnographic …
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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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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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Cognition and Gender Diversity in Top Management Teams - A Comprehensive Analysis of Top Management Team Communication and Linguistic Patterns
… between cognition and gender diversity within top management teams (TMTs). It elucidates its implications for organizational outcomes, underlying mechanisms, and connection to strategic top management communication (STMC). The comprehensive review of existing research on gender diversity and …
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A Little Difference Makes A Big Difference: Essays On The Link Between Top Management Team Traits And Strategic Marketing Decisions
… of research on the impact that can be had by top management team members on a firm's strategic marketing outcomes. The research which follows explores an important question that has previously been comparatively neglected by researchers: what top management team individual differences can …
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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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An Empirical Study of Executive Management Team Compensation and Company Performance
… empirically examines executive compensation for team effects on future firm performance.Applying a firm specific fixed-effects model to a sample of 13,021 firm-year observations from ExecuComp, the current study regresses top management team compensation and control variables on firm performance …
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Working with top management teams : conversations contributing to board development
There has been much written about top teams, that is, existing teams that have the executive responsibility for leading their organisations each day, not specifically focused on one project or one change programme. However, little research has been carried out on meetings processes within ongoing …
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In Search Of Marketing's Genie: Essays On The Impact Of Ceo And Corporate Governance Factors On Marketing Strategies
… which consists of the composition of the top management team and the compensation given to them. How firms differ in their internal corporate governance and how can internal corporate governance be altered to solve the problem of decline in marketing is what this dissertation is built on. …
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Investigating the Relationship between Governance Mechanisms and the Disclosure of IT Control Weaknesses
… systems (IS) organization represented by the top IS team as an agent. Drawing on corporate governance literature, this dissertation proposes two categories of governance and contracting mechanisms that the board of directors can employ to reduce information asymmetry and align the interests of …
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Resource Deployment Strategies Following Initial Public Offering: Connecting Resource -Based, Upper Echelons, and Agency Perspectives
… theory, the joint experience of managers in the top management team prepares them for making intense, irreversible investments towards building R&D capabilities. Third, R&D investment intensity goes down as the top management team becomes more heterogeneous in functional experience. Fourth, in …
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Subsidiary Innovation and Diffusion: An Integrated Approach on Learning of Subsidiaries from Diverse Local Environments
… local environments. Finally at subsidiary level, top management team heterogeneity impacts the capability of a subsidiary to learn. This dissertation applies both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Multiple-case studies provide rich details, while survey research tests the …
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Managerial Knowledge, Expansion Trajectories, and Competitive Advantage Among Large Firms in the United States Paper Industry, 1973--1992
… predictions that link attributes of the firm's top management team with the firm's capacity expansion path. Specifically, top management teams hiring managers from large firms, from large plants, and from slow-growth plants are likely to expand at above-average rates. Further, some evidence is …
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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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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. …
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