Why do top management teams look the way they do? A multilevel exploration of the antecedents of TMT heterogeneity Export

@article{citeulike:5802778, abstract = {While individual-level social psychological processes may promote top management team (TMT) homogeneity, a number of organizational and environmental factors pose requirements for increasing TMT heterogeneity. These opposing mechanisms lead to different predictions regarding the outcome of the TMT selection process. This article investigates the interactions between the different level factors influencing TMT heterogeneity in order to determine under what conditions pressures towards heterogeneity prevail over the tendency towards homosocial reproduction. Based on a panel dataset of 165 Swiss listed companies, the results of hierarchical linear model (HLM) analyses provide support for attraction--selection--attrition (ASA) and similarity-- attraction tendencies. Newly appointed TMT members were more likely to be similar to the rest of the team when the prior degree of homogeneity in the TMT was high. However, this tendency was lower in firms with a high degree of internationalization or facing dynamic industry environments. At the same time, munificent industries amplify tendencies towards TMT homogeneity. 10.1177/1476127009340496}, author = {Nielsen, Sabina}, citeulike-article-id = {5802778}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127009340496}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://soq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/3/277}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1476127009340496}, journal = {Strategic Organization}, keywords = {anteced, do, exploration, heterogeneity, management, multilevel, teams, they, tmt, top, way, why}, month = {August}, number = {3}, pages = {277--305}, posted-at = {2009-09-18 17:03:09}, priority = {3}, title = {Why do top management teams look the way they do? A multilevel exploration of the antecedents of TMT heterogeneity}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127009340496}, volume = {7}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5802778 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5802778 N2 - While individual-level social psychological processes may promote top management team (TMT) homogeneity, a number of organizational and environmental factors pose requirements for increasing TMT heterogeneity. These opposing mechanisms lead to different predictions regarding the outcome of the TMT selection process. This article investigates the interactions between the different level factors influencing TMT heterogeneity in order to determine under what conditions pressures towards heterogeneity prevail over the tendency towards homosocial reproduction. Based on a panel dataset of 165 Swiss listed companies, the results of hierarchical linear model (HLM) analyses provide support for attraction--selection--attrition (ASA) and similarity-- attraction tendencies. Newly appointed TMT members were more likely to be similar to the rest of the team when the prior degree of homogeneity in the TMT was high. However, this tendency was lower in firms with a high degree of internationalization or facing dynamic industry environments. At the same time, munificent industries amplify tendencies towards TMT homogeneity. 10.1177/1476127009340496 IS - 3 JF - Strategic Organization EP - 305 TI - Why do top management teams look the way they do? A multilevel exploration of the antecedents of TMT heterogeneity VL - 7 SP - 277 KW - anteced KW - do KW - exploration KW - heterogeneity KW - management KW - multilevel KW - teams KW - they KW - tmt KW - top KW - way KW - why AU - Nielsen, Sabina PY - 2009/08/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127009340496 ER -