This paper reviews empirical research on top management team (TMT) diversity. A number
of scholars have concluded that upper echelons findings, in particular in terms of the …

To many observers, a focus on entrepreneurial groups–or, more colloquially, venture
'founding teams'–is a thoroughly modern pre-occupation. It was only in the late 1980s and …

Despite the increasing dependence on teams, there has been little research on crisis
management in organizational teams in the corporate sector. In this study which is based on …

This paper develops a framework for estimating multidimensional fit. In the context of
contingency thinking and the resource-based view of the firm, there is a clear need for …

The number of foreigners appointed to top management teams has increased significantly
over the past decade. However, the question of why some firms elect to employ foreign …

To date, quantitative assessments of the evolution of national rules have only rarely been
conducted, leaving many questions ill-understood and unaddressed, particularly as to the …

According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke
two opposite responses:(i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less …

Abstract “Diversity refers to any mixture of items characterized by differences and
similarities”.(Thomas 1996: 5) This is a definition which had been widely accepted in the …

Demography theory suggests that high gender diversity leads to high turnover. As turnover
is costly for organizations, we examined whether HR policies and practices influence the …