TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS, GLOBAL STRATEGIC POSTURE, AND THE MODERATING ROLE OF UNCERTAINTY.

2001/06/01 by M. A. Carpenter, Mason A. Carpenter, J. W. Fredrickson +1 · 874 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Business #Computer science #Economics #Gender Diversity and Inequality #Human resource management #Industrial organization #Innovation and Knowledge Management #International Student and Expatriate Challenges #Knowledge management #Marketing #Operations management #Organizational behavior #Process management #Psychology #Social psychology #Strategic management #Strategic planning #Upper echelons

paper · doi:10.2307/3069368

published in Academy of Management Journal 44(3), 533-545 (Academy of Management)

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Abstract

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.

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