Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore the effects of the diversity of experience and different personalities of top management team members on mediating processes such as agenda‐setting, the generating of strategic alternatives, and the speed of strategic decision making....

Purpose – This study attempts to move beyond the “congruence assumption” surrounding top management team (TMT) demography by exploring the intervening processes that link TMT diversity and organizational performance. Design/methodology/approach – Using Fiol's concept of unified diversity...

Purpose – The authors believe that corporate culture, if correctly aligned with the external environment, is the key to long‐term organizational success. The paper aims to explain how CEOs can take an abstract concept like culture, visualize it, and take steps to harness its power to create...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate key strategic decisions involved in turning around a large multinational operating in a dynamic market. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on analysis of archival documents and a semi‐structured interview with the chairman...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply interpretive structural modelling in the clarification of the perceptions of different individuals in a managerial group in order to improve group decision making. To limit conflict and increase shared knowledge in group decision making, there is...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyzes merger, firm, and country characteristics that may explain the root causes of long‐term executive instability in target company top management teams. Design/methodology/approach – Mergers involve two different groups of executives – executives in...

Purpose – The paper offers an example of an approach to translating integral concepts into language that is accessible to executive leaders in business without resorting to introducing the complexity of integral theory and models. Design/methodology/approach – The phase of intervention is...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the contributions of top management teams’ (TMTs) social capital to the creation of business value. Design/methodology/approach – Least‐squares regression is used to estimate the relationship between TMT social capital and Tobin's Q , while controlling...