Purpose This paper aims to explore the relationship between top management team bricolage and performance also examines unit ambidexterity's mediating role. More essentially, understand black box of organizational knowledge dynamism, a multilevel moderated model is established by exploring effects two firm-level moderators, namely, potential absorptive capacity realized capacity. Design/methodo...

The cognitive diversity of top management teams has been shown to affect the performance of a firm. However, most approaches to measure cognitive diversity never attempt to open the "black box" to understand what makes up the cognitive diversity of the team. This research reports on an approach that identifies diverse belief structures, i.e., cognitive subgroups, through the use of causal mappi...

This study examines how the demographic characteristics of the top management team in 236 nursing homes can affect the adoption of innovations. The computerization of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) is the innovation we examine, and tenure, education, and involvement in a professional society are the demographic characteristics investigated. Controlling for 10 organizational and environmental factor...

Firms are working in increasingly dynamic and un-predictable markets due to economic instability, globalisation, and disruptive technologies. The uncertainty and lack of information that accompanies strategy making in these turbulent conditions places the strategic capacity of the top management team (TMT) under stress. However, there is little accessible research that can help top teams to eva...

How does top management team (TMT) conflict influence entrepreneurial strategy making of new ventures? With a sample of new ventures in China’s technology industries, this study examines the conditions under which TMT cognitive conflict and affective conflict are associated with entrepreneurial strategy making. We found that cognitive conflict among TMT members had a positive relationship with ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Executive turnover Top management teams Strategic change Discontinued operations Power circulation theory While previous research suggests that CEO turnover correlates with strategic changes in firm's operations such as discontinuation of operations, we demonstrate that such findings apply only to specific types of CEO turnover, and only if non-CEO members of the...