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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"top management teams"”.
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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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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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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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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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The development of an integrated model of the relationship among strategic decision-making process, organisational change and employees’ EVLN behavioural responses
… were collected from 11 CEOs and 78 members of top management teams, and 1,259 Greek bank employees. The study adopted the positivistic approach and data were quantitatively analysed by using the statistical software of SPSS version 2.1 and AMOS version 22.0. The findings suggest that top …
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An Empirical Investigation of Corporate Entrepreneurship Intensity within the Casual Dining Restaurant Segment
… corporate entrepreneurship (CE) practices and management performance. The use of Morris and Kuratko's (2002) Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI) was used as the survey instrument for this study. A sample size of 1,200 unit managers, middle managers, and top management teams …
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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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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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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: COMPANY CULTURE AS A REFLECTION OF FOUNDER PERSONALITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ORGANIZATIONS
… it draws from the literature in upper echelon/top management teams, family business and organizational psychology – notably the Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA: Schneider, 1987) and Person-Organization fit (P-O: O'Reilly, Chatman, & Caldwell, 1991) theories. Using a combination of …
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Getting in, getting on, getting out, getting over it. An exploration into the inner work of an executive team coach
… coach in the specific context of working with top management teams in large, multi-national organisations. Utilising a pragmatic action research approach, this first person inquiry draws from practice vignettes, autoethnography, five-factor analysis, personal reflection, and literature to …
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Trust and cooperation as antecedents of team cognition: A temporal examination of the life cycle of team mental models
… development of mental model (MM) similarity in teams. The current study examined several potential antecedents of MM similarity, in addition to the consequences and changes in similarity over time, using a longitudinal design with teams that closely resemble top management teams. Theory and …
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Exploring gender diversity in top level management teams with the hospitality industry
The Hospitality Management industry is one of the largest industries in the United States, employing nearly 10 percent of the country's entire population. Of those employees, 55.5 percent of them are female (Leisure and Hospitality, 2022). Despite having entered the 21st century, important …
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The Impact of Functional TMT Technology Leadership Roles on Firm Financial Outcomes
… technology roles have emerged in corporate Top Management Teams (TMT). Beyond the well-known roles of Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer, the rapid advances in technology in the early 2000s introduced new technology-related C-Suite titles, such as Chief Data Officer, …
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A strategic framework for establishing aerospace value chains in emerging markets
Background: CEO's and top management teams of large corporations in developed countries acknowledge that globalization is the most critical challenge they face today. They are also keenly aware that it has become during the past decade to identify internationalization strategies and to choose which …
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Women at the top: an investigation into the lived experience of women executives holding top posts in the UK
… workplace persistent gender imbalance at top executive levels is a matter of public and political debate in the context of a growing realisation that this phenomenon is not only a social and cultural problem, it is also a business problem. From the perspective of improving business …
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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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Examining the perceived internal and external effectiveness of NGOs in the Palestinian Territories : the role of complexity, resilience, and job adaptability
… behavioral and emotional complexities of Top Management Teams (TMTs), perceived job adaptability of TMTs, perceived resilience of TMTs and their relationship to perceived internal and external effectiveness of their respective NGOs working in the Palestinian Territories. A total of 133 …
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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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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE MAKING OF CORPORATE STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE
… female representation in present-day firms’ top management teams. The effect has been partly channeled through legislation and laws promoting equality. In addition, historical Catholic immigration waves to different states have weakened this effect. This study contributes (1) to imprinting …
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Social Capital, Cognitions, and Firm Innovation: Theoretical Model and Empirical Studies
… innovation. In the context of firm innovation, top management teams' cognitions or an entrepreneur's cognitions shape the way they use the social structure available to them, while the social structures influence the embedded actors' cognitions and ultimately strategic actions. Managers and …
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