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Title
Top management team functional diversity and firm performance: the moderating role of CEO characteristics
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Abstract
Past research indicates that the effect of TMT functional diversity on firm performance is equivocal. We address this issue by focusing on the integrative role of the CEO, postulating that the CEO's expertise and background characteristics affect the TMT functional diversityfirm performance relationship, because of their impact on the exchange and integration of distributed knowledge within the TMT. Using a dataset of 33 Dutch and Belgian Information Technology firms we investigate the moderating role of three sets of CEO characteristics (functional background, status as founder, and shared experience with the other TMT members) on the relationship between TMT functional diversity and firm performance. Our results reveal that CEO and TMT characteristics do interact in realizing the potential advantages of distributed TMT functional expertise
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of management studies / University of Lancaster. School of Management. - Oxford, 1964, currens
Publication
Oxford : 2011
ISSN
0022-2380 [print]
1467-6486 [online]
DOI
10.1111/J.1467-6486.2010.00932.X
Volume/pages
48 :1 (2011) , p. 151-177
ISI
000284775100007
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UAntwerpen
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Web of Science
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Last edited 25.05.2022
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