TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS, GLOBAL STRATEGIC POSTURE, AND THE MODERATING ROLE OF UNCERTAINTY.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 June 2001
Mason A. Carpenter, James W. Fredrickson
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Abstract
The complexity surrounding globalization offers a unique context in which to study the moderating role of uncertainty on top management team (TMT) demographic effects. In a sample of United States-based industrial firms, TMT international experience, educational heterogeneity, and tenure heterogeneity were positively related to firms' global strategic postures, and functional heterogeneity exhibited a negative association. However, when the level of uncertainty facing TMTs was accounted for, these associations were found to be nonlinear.
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