Top management team constellations and their implications for strategic decision making

IF 9.1 1区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Leadership Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101510

Feng Liu , Michael Jarrett , Sally Maitlis

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Abstract

Two major themes in the upper echelon decision making literature are the efficacy of the CEO and the composition of the top management team (TMT). Little research has examined their intersection. This study addresses the call to reveal the social processes within TMTs, by focusing on CEO-TMT member interaction in decision making. Drawing on video ethnographic data of two TMTs, we explore the patterns of interactions between CEOs and TMT members in their strategic decision making meetings. Through an analysis of 20 issue discussions, we identify five “constellations”, a team level construct capturing the core relational dynamics that are created through mutual CEO-TMT member influence during a team's discussion of a strategic issue. We explain how these constellations unfold and their implications for the processes and outcomes of TMT strategic decision making. We then elaborate how our findings contribute to the TMT and upper echelon literatures, as well as our understanding of team politics.

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高层管理团队结构及其对战略决策的影响

高层决策文献中的两个主要主题是CEO的效能和高层管理团队(TMT)的组成。很少有研究考察它们的交集。本研究通过关注CEO-TMT成员在决策过程中的互动，解决了揭示tmt内部社会过程的呼吁。利用两家TMT的视频民族志数据，我们探讨了ceo和TMT成员在战略决策会议上的互动模式。通过对20个问题讨论的分析，我们确定了五个“星座”，这是一个团队层面的结构，捕捉了在团队讨论战略问题期间通过CEO-TMT成员相互影响而创建的核心关系动态。我们解释了这些星座是如何展开的，以及它们对TMT战略决策过程和结果的影响。然后，我们详细阐述了我们的发现如何有助于TMT和上层文献，以及我们对团队政治的理解。

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