Top management teams, global strategic posture, and the moderating role of uncertainty

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Carpenter, MA; Fredrickson, JW
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069368
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 533-545
• 关键词: GROUP HETEROGENEITY; diversification; INTERNATIONALIZATION; demography; performance; experience; dimensions; governance; diversity; countries

摘要

The complexity surrounding globalization offers a unique context in which to study the moderating role of uncertainty on top management team (TMT) demographic effects. In a sample of United States-based industrial firms, TMT international experience, educational heterogeneity, and tenure heterogeneity were positively related to firms' global strategic postures, and functional heterogeneity exhibited a negative association. However, when the level of uncertainty facing TMTs was accounted for, these associations were found to be nonlinear.