The ‘Parenting Advantage’ and Innovation Processes in the Multinational Firm: Does Top Management Mess Things Up?

2015 ◽  
pp. 97-111
Author(s):  
Mats Forsgren
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Firm ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Innovation Processes

Leveraging Multinational Firm Performance through the Use of Diversified Top Management Teams

2012 ◽  
pp. 185-201
Author(s):  
Güven Alpay ◽  
Pinar Büyükbalci
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Management Teams ◽  
Multinational Firm ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Implementing Strategies ◽  
Strategic Outcomes

This chapter discusses the theoretical framework covering the relationship between top management team diversity determinants and certain organization-level variables in order to capture the essence of possible strategic outcomes. Accordingly, it attempts to summarize and clarify the theoretical and empirical literature regarding the effects of diversity on the functioning of top management teams. In this sense, the main aim of this study is to contribute to and improve the current literature on diversity through the viewpoint of strategic international business literature by directly focusing on the organizational unit—top management teams—which is responsible for formulating and implementing strategies that will leverage organizational performance in the long run.

scholarly journals Using Boundary Objects to Facilitate Culture Change and Integrate a Global Top Management Team

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia C. Gluesing
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Top Management Team ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Multinational Firm ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Change Initiatives ◽  
Implementing Change ◽  
Change Team ◽  
Diverse Groups

As business anthropologists, we are often called upon to work on organizational change initiatives as members of a change team.  This article is the story of one organizational change initiative involving a global top management team in a healthcare division of a large multinational firm and the research that was used as the basis for implementing change in the top management team and subsequently in the division as a whole.  Specifically, the article focuses on how the change team, of which I was a part, communicated the research results to the top management team and to employees of the company by presenting the results in a map that became a boundary object, that facilitating translation across diverse groups, joint sensemaking, and local action in the change process.  

Der Generalfaktor der Persönlichkeit und die Dunkle Triade

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-248
Author(s):  
Vivien Höflinger ◽  
Christian Mai ◽  
Marion Büttgen ◽  
Andreas Eckhardt
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Top Management

Zusammenfassung. Um die komplexe Verbindung zwischen Wesenskennzeichen und Führungserfolg auf Top-Managementebene zu entschlüsseln, bietet der Generalfaktor der Persönlichkeit (GFP) eine interessante, aber bis dato eher selten genutzte Alternative zu herkömmlichen Konzepten der Persönlichkeitspsychologie. Hier setzt die vorliegende Studie an. Sie extrahiert aus den klassischen Dimensionen der Big Five einen übergeordneten Generalfaktor und verknüpft diesen mit den Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen der Dunklen Triade. Die Erhebung bei 320 deutschen Vorständen und Geschäftsführern zeigt, dass sich der Persönlichkeitsfaktor speziell für das Top-Management (GFP-E) durch die Faktorladungen und hinsichtlich der Facettenhierarchie vom herkömmlichen GFP unterscheidet. Der spezifisch für Executives ermittelte GFP-E korreliert positiv mit individuellen Erfolgs- und Zufriedenheitsmaßen sowie mit Narzissmus, einer Dimension der Dunklen Triade. Außerdem zeigen sich negative Zusammenhänge zu Machiavellismus und Psychopathie. Die Ergebnisse erlauben weiterführende Implikationen für die Forschung sowie die Auswahl und Förderung von Managern in der Unternehmenspraxis.

Educational Programs as the Element of Managing Corporate Knowledge

2006 ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
V. Golubkin ◽  
S. Kalendzhyan ◽  
L. Kleyeva
Keyword(s):  
Educational Programs ◽  
Knowledge Circulation ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Main Factor

The modern approaches and mechanisms of managing the organization knowledge being now the main factor of innovation processes are observed in the article. Functioning of such mechanisms is not simple and needs outsourcers in education and consulting. In order to make the management effective the interaction of the company with the outsourcer should sustain the process of permanent knowledge circulation.

EFFECT OF TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT, SYSTEM QUALITY, AND INFORMATION QUALITY ON SATISFACTION ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM USERS IN LEMBAGA PERKREDITAN DESA (LPD) IN UBUD DISTRICT

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Sang Ayu Putu Arie Indraswarawati ◽  
I Putu Deddy Samtika Putra ◽  
Ni Wayan Cahyani
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Support System ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Management Support ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Accounting Information System ◽  
Top Management Support

The use of Accounting Information System (AIS) is very helpful in accommodating all the information needed to make an accurate decision. Indicators in determining the good and bad performance of an information system can be seen through AIS user satisfaction and usage. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of top management support, system quality and information quality on AIS user satisfaction. The sample selection method used was purposive sampling. The research sample was 147 people consisting of administrators, loan officers and savings at 29 Lembaga Perkreditan Desa (LPD) in Ubud Subdistrict. The data in this study is primary data which is the answer from the questionnaire. The regression results show that all variables have a significance of 0,000. It shows that top management support, system quality and information quality have positive influences on Accounting Information System user satisfaction.

The 3rd Dimension of Innovation Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos CHANTZARAS
Keyword(s):  
Linear Models ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Relational Models ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Specific Skill ◽  
Innovation Processes

Architects understand and visualize organizations and processes differently from their counterparts in management disciplines. With the increasing complexities of markets and blurring of organizational boundaries, linear models of innovation processes are unable to account for the range of possible  interrelations and interdependencies. Design-led disciplines have become of interest in providing frames and ‘design’ structures for fostering innovation. Though it deals specifically with the conceptualization and realization of R&D and innovation centres, architecture has been largely overlooked in this regard. This paper explains how architects’ approach to reframing complexities, focussing on social interactions and shaping invisible patterns prior to building design offers new perspectives for innovation research. It critically reviews the changing context of innovation and relational models in the literature, and outlines the relevance of integrating spatial proximities and time for a constructive 3-dimensional representation. Via two case studies, the basic principles for the development of an integrative approach are sketched out and suggestions made for further research. The specific skill-set and thinking of architects offers a 3rd dimension of innovation processes.

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