Top management teams in international business research: A review and suggestions for future research

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Cuypers, Ilya R. P.; Patel, Charmi; Ertug, Gokhan; Li, Jiatao; Cuypers, Youtha
• 署名单位: Singapore Management University; University of Reading; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-021-00456-9
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 481-515
• 关键词: TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS; internationalization theories and foreign market; upper echelon theory; Foreign market entry

摘要

This article reviews and critically assesses the large and diverse literature on top management teams (TMTs) that has focused on international business (IB) issues. We apply an organizing framework that centers around four key elements of TMTs - TMT composition, structure, processes, and governance - and the most commonly studied IB-related choices and outcomes. This framework allows us to synthesize the contributions of the literature on TMTs in IB and identify opportunities for future research. The contributions of our review are threefold. First, we offer a roadmap for navigating the large and diverse literature on TMTs in IB. Second, we provide a systematic and critical evaluation of the key empirical and theoretical developments in this literature. Third, we highlight opportunities for future research to make theoretical and empirical advancements in each of the areas of our organizing framework. In these future research opportunities, we draw particular attention to the need to further contextualize TMT research in IB by proposing opportunities to more systematically incorporate the unique nature of the MNE and the external environment in which the MNE operates.