Purpose This paper aims to explore the relationship between top management team bricolage and performance also examines unit ambidexterity's mediating role. More essentially, understand black box of organizational knowledge dynamism, a multilevel moderated model is established by exploring effects two firm-level moderators, namely, potential absorptive capacity realized capacity. Design/methodo...

On the basis of the terror management theory proposition that self-esteem provides protection against concerns about mortality, it was hypothesized that self-esteem would reduce the worldview defense produced by mortality salience (MS). The results of Experiments 1 and 2 confirmed this hypothesis by showing that individuals with high self-esteem (manipulated in Experiment 1; dispositional in Ex...

This study investigates the relationship of strategic leadership behaviors with executive innovation influence and the moderating effects of top management team (TMT)’s tenure heterogeneity and social culture on that relationship. Using survey data from six countries comprising three social cultures, strategic leadership behaviors were found to have a strong positive relationship with executive...

The Internet has been changing the current ways of doing business in traditional firms. Not all the traditional firms show the same enthusiasm in e-business. Some firms’ e-business strategies are more aggressive while other firms’ e-business strategies are more conservative. This study proposes a framework to investigate whether or not the demographic characteristics of top management team (TMT...

A B S T R AC T This study examined the moderating influence of two top management team (TMT) characteristics, namely managers possessing an MBA education or prior military experience, on the relationships between firm size and corporate criminal activity, and firm strategy and corporate criminal activity. The study utilized data from 184 Fortune 500 companies. The results suggest that both grad...

We develop a real space cluster extension of the typical medium theory (cluster-TMT) to study Anderson localization. By construction, cluster-TMT approach is formally equivalent dynamical mean field theory. Applying developed method 3D model with box disorder distribution, we demonstrate that successfully captures localization phenomena in all regimes. As function size, our obtains correct crit...

The trail making test (TMT) is widely used to assess speed of processing and executive function. However, normative data sets gathered at different sites show significant inconsistencies. Here, we describe a computerized version of the TMT (C-TMT) that increases the precision and replicability of the TMT by permitting a segment-by-segment analysis of performance and separate analyses of dwell-t...

Local health departments often use multidisciplinary top management teams (TMTs) to organize the work of the agency. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of TMTs in North Carolina local health departments and how TMTs use affected agency performance. TMT diversity and TMT performance positively affected the local health departments' (LHDs) performance. As well, the TMTs' agenda affe...

BACKGROUND Neurocognitive impairment has been described in COPD patients, but little is known about its relationship with physical functioning and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in this chronically ill patient group. METHODS 301 stable COPD patients completed the Trail Making Test (TMT-A: psychomotor speed and TMT-B: executive control); 198 patients completed the Memory Impairment Scre...

Terror management theory asserts that death fear (fear of annihilation) is buffered by self-esteem and beliefs in literal and symbolic immortality achieved through participation in the cultural system. The aims of this study were to determine how variables suggested by the theory were related to fear of death measures. Participants were 123 Black and 265 White elders aged 60 to 100 years; they ...