Making use of difference: Diversity, debate, and decision comprehensiveness in top management teams

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Simons, T; Pelled, LH; Smith, KA
• 署名单位: Cornell University; University of Southern California; Syracuse University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/256987
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 662-673
• 关键词: firm performance; ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOGRAPHY; group heterogeneity; predictors; consensus; COMMUNICATION; environments; ventures; turnover

摘要

This study examined how top management team diversity variables and debate interacted to influence two measures of company financial performance. Further, it assessed the degree to which decision comprehensiveness mediated those interaction effects. Multi-informant data from the top management teams of 57 manufacturing companies revealed that more job-related types of diversity interacted with debate to influence financial performance, but a less job-related type (age diversity) did not. Decision comprehensiveness partially mediated those effects.