Author : Christine Scheef
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)
Book Synopsis Essays on Top Management Teams and Chief Strategy Officers by : Christine Scheef
Download or read book Essays on Top Management Teams and Chief Strategy Officers written by Christine Scheef and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an upper echelons perspective, it is central to study top management teams (TMTs) and their senior executives' behavior to understand how and why organizations vary in their strategic choices and performance. While the body of knowledge about TMTs is already substantial, this dissertation shifts the focus of TMT research towards behavioral perspectives and identifies three shortcomings in the current TMT research, which warrant more research attention. Each article of this dissertation aims at advancing the limited knowledge about one or more of the following shortcomings: (1) the TMT's cognitive and social processes, (2) the TMT's structure and particularly, senior executives' varying power in strategic decision-making, and (3) the Chief Strategy Officer's (CSO's) behavior. Article one focuses on understanding the TMT's structure and particularly, power variation among TMT members across strategic decision domains. Using survey data from 70 TMTs of European firms, the article examines the effects of TMT power variation on strategic decision-making and explores the role of the TMT's actual information processing behavior in explaining these relationships. Article two focuses on understanding the CSO's behavior. Using survey data from 116 CSOs of European firms, the article explores what affects CSOs' perception of their discretion to influence the firm's strategic decisions and its implications for the firm's strategy. Moreover, the article takes into account the TMT's structure and examines interactions between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the CSO as two leading strategists in the firm. Article three examines CSOs' cognition in anticipating future developments and conducting long-term planning, particularly when the future does not mirror the past. This deductive theory-building paper explores the causes and consequences of differences in CSOs' mental representations of future developments and the resulting.