... changes in two corporate governance mechanisms, board of directors and top management teams (TMTs). Following these alterations, the purpose of this paper is to propose that such changes will be detrimental for the performance of young entrepreneurial firms. This study examines the post-IPO...

... and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures), and contextual factors (perceived top management support). Design/methodology/approach – The empirical analysis draws on a sample of 362 employees from five subsidiaries of multinational corporations. The analysis is based on multivariate regression models...

... understanding of how decisions leading to SME innovations are influenced by business owners’ perceptions and demographic characteristics. Dr Yongqiang Gao can be contacted at: yqgao@mail.hust.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 China Top management R&D Small- to medium-sized...

...Heather R. Parola; Kimberly M. Ellis; Peggy Golden Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to uncover the performance effects of top management team (TMT) gender diversity in the merger and acquisition (M&A) process. To do so, an integration of the upper echelons perspective and the M...

...Ralph I. Williams Jr; Daniel L. Morrell; John V. Mullane Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose that top management commitment to its organization's mission statement moderates the mission's effect of firm performance. The proposed model combines numerous aspects of top management...

...Michael A. Roberto This study explores how top management teams make strategic decisions. The findings indicate that the top management team performs a variety of monitoring and control functions within most firms, but that a single team with stable composition does not make strategic choices...

...).  “Ethics is …”: Ethics is a web in which you find your self trapped. Ultimately it is linked into trust, you make disclosures to others trusting that they will maintain the same standards (HRMM21). Decision making Ethics Skills Top management This paper may be of use...

... CEOs and top management teams intensively participate in the planning process, which was perceived as highly formalized and sophisticated, the lack of advanced tools and techniques creates serious questions of whether planning is a valuable resource for the Greek companies or companies operating...

... indicates that only a handful of CEOs can be currently regarded as the owners of informative homepages while most CEOs do not appear to be serious in building and maintaining their homepages. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Top management Internet Information Log on, BOSS! Get wired – or we’ll...

... in Indonesia. As for the cooperatives sector, it is also by nature – the owners are the beneficiaries – an example of a governance structure with mixed objectives. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Corporate finance Corporate governance Top management For the last decade or so, corporate governance...

... profitability. This gives rise to the first hypothesis:‐ H1: acquired firms will perform poorly relative to non‐acquired firms in terms of profitability. Directors Corporate planning Mergers and acquisitions Objectives Top management Public limited companies are owned...

... MCB UP Limited 1996 Corporate strategy Measurement Operations planning Strategic management Top management Managers in large companies often have difficulty translating objectives, strategies and performance measures at different levels of the company. Objectives at the senior...

... and strategic planning maturities. Theoretical applications and real‐world applications link the concept of strategic planning maturities to successful and unsuccessful strategic decisions actually made by top management in a cross‐section of large organizations. Given the aforesaid organizational...

... Corporate culture Ethics Human resource management Leadership Management Organizations Top management Values But if individualism understands only a part of man, collectivism understands man only as a part. Martin Buber Both as writer and consultant I have cause to be thankful...

... the organization(including top management attitudes, organizational structure,compensation systems, and employee‐retention strategies), preparing management (including attitudes, skills training, and vocabulary changes), and preparing employees (including attitudes, communication and group skills‐training, and job...

... projects can be considered evidence of an active(as opposed to a stagnant) improvement system. Australia Continuous improvement Kaizen Manufacturing Participation Teams Top management Changes in the international economic situation marked by large market shares captured by Japanese firms...

...Ken Matejka; La Vonne Brooks; Liz Gates Presents a review of the factors that have inhibited the adoption of total quality management in the USA and recommends new ways of approaching it that require more personal involvement by top management. 60 MANAGEMENT DECISION 31,5 You cannot decree quality...

... companies are not meeting the test of global competitiveness; our prosperity is borrowed, not earned. Top managers think that they are the cause of America's serious, and worsening competitiveness problem[12]. And discussing the failure of US automakers to build small cars years ago, Ouichi[13, p. 15] says...

... In the West, heavy emphasis is placed in acquiring business expertise especially in the professional management skills needed for strategy formulation. Top managers are trained to become expert in this field. In Japan, however, far more emphasis is placed on the ability to develop the business network...

... techniques Top management 38 MANAGEMENT DECISION 28,1 T he more a manager walks about the less time he spends on doing his job. taken to inviting their colleagues to join them at their shoe repairers. Quantity discounts are being offered and new numerically-controlled repair technology can cope...