Diversity Types in a Top Management Team and the Process of Strategic Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 12431
Author(s):  
Mami Taniguchi ◽  
Parshotam Dass
1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarethe F. Wiersema ◽  
Karen A. Bantel

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 957-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Carmen Díaz‐Fernández ◽  
M. Rosario González‐Rodríguez ◽  
Biagio Simonetti

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiattichai Kalasin

Purpose This study aims to examine how senior foreign executives in a top management team catalyse strategic change in firms that originated from emerging markets (EMs). It further examines the moderating effects of organisational size and uncertainty avoidance (UA) on the positive relationship between senior foreign manager and strategic change in an organisation. Design/methodology/approach The panel data econometrics and multilevel analyses were adopted to run the model. The author tests hypotheses on 263 emerging market firms (EMFs), originating from nine EMs. Findings Empirical results reveal that senior foreign managers are active agents who can promote and implement strategic change in an organisation. They possess a different set of values, knowledge and experiences that can trigger strategic change. In addition, firm size and UA weaken the relationship between senior foreign manager ratio and strategic change of a firm.. Practical implications This study indicates that recruiting committees of EMFs should consider hiring senior foreign managers to foster a higher degree of strategic change. Nevertheless, firm size and UA may impose implementation difficulties for senior, foreign managers. As a result, the focal firm should be flexible and open to change. Originality/value This study aims to contribute to strategic change and top management team internationalisation literature by promoting the role of senior foreign managers and national culture on strategic change.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Wu ◽  
Orlando C. Richard ◽  
Xinhe Zhang ◽  
Craig Macaulay

Top management team (TMT) heterogeneity research has not yet clearly revealed whether surface-level diversity (i.e., national culture, gender, age) contributes to or detracts from a firm’s financial performance and has not focused on how strategic change frequency (number international diversification or refocusing activities) serves as an intervening mechanism. Based on a sample of 1,993 firms between 2003 and 2015, we examine the mediating role of strategic change frequency in the relationship between surface-level diversity and long-term firm performance. Grounded in the upper echelons perspective, we find that TMT surface-level diversity increases rather than decreases strategic change frequency. Furthermore, our results are consistent with our hypothesized positive relationship between strategic change frequency and long-term firm performance. More important, we also find support for a longitudinal-based mediation model in which strategic change frequency in terms of diversification/refocusing actions (Time 2) transmits the positive effect of TMT surface-level diversity (Time 1) to long-term financial performance (Time 3) without accounting for any moderated conditions suggesting that mediation models warrant more utilization in the upper echelons research and internationalization research domains. Implications for the upper echelons theory in a more global world as if relates to the often unexplored surface-level diversity are offered.


2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 904-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Barron ◽  
Dmitriy V. Chulkov ◽  
Glen R. Waddell

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Wu ◽  
Zelong Wei ◽  
Qiaozhuan Liang

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