How does top management team (TMT) conflict influence entrepreneurial strategy making of new ventures? With a sample of new ventures in China’s technology industries, this study examines the conditions under which TMT cognitive conflict and affective conflict are associated with entrepreneurial strategy making. We found that cognitive conflict among TMT members had a positive relationship with ...

The theory of moral intuitionism views moral judgment as emotion-driven, universal, and evolutionarily-derived. Expanding on that theory is the idea that all moral judgment stems from five foundations of moral intuition: harm, reciprocity, ingroup, hierarchy, and purity. Terror management theory proposes that individuals are motivated to adhere to a cultural worldview in order to prevent the an...

This paper examines the influences of cultural diversity in the top management team (TMT) on organizational performance. The link between the two is investigated through the path dependency model, where firm ambidextrous orientation serves an intervening role. The results of the study suggest that TMT cultural diversity will have a negative influence on firm performance due to the decreasing de...

On their journey toward digital transformation, industrial firms need to embrace innovation. The top management team (TMT) is expected set the course for innovation, which a challenging endeavour given novel and cross-functional nature of We draw on role theory make sense emerging requirements TMT combine this view with upper echelon hypothesize specific characteristics that are needed first th...

This research integrates the top management teams (TMT)power theory, CPA economic independence and reputation maintenance theory to explore impact on audit quality. study used sample of firms listed Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) Taipei (TPEx) from 2009 2016. The empirical results show that as TMT power companies increases, quality is higher. It different general will conduct earning based self-in...

The authors used terror management theory to investigate people's reactions to the terrorist attacks of 09/11/01. According to the theory, people have a primary need to eliminate or reduce existential terror in response to such horrific events as 9/11. The authors obtained people's reactions to 9/11, an event in which the threat to one's existence was more authentic than those of previous event...

The era of big data has changed the traditional science based on mathematical statistics, and promoted innovation analysis methods. This paper takes China state-holding holding enterprises as research object, uses game theory method, top management team (TMT) knowledge hiding degree background to construct a minority shareholder governance information database, discusses feasibility using share...

Ninety-eight undergraduate students were subjected to the TMT as well as a series of derived measures from the TMT with a view to ascertaining the nature of the contribution of each to the performance. Performance on the TMT(A) was uniquely contributed to by visual search and motor speed measures, whereas the performance on TMT(B) was uniquely contributed to by the visual search and cognitive a...