An Exploratory Study on the Influencers of the Perceived Relevance of CIO's Activities and Skills

2017 ◽  
pp. 401-421
Author(s):  
João Varajão ◽  
António Trigo ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Business Context ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Perceived Relevance

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study developed to identify the current CIO's main activities, to verify whether CIO's demographics and CIO's business context influence the perception of the importance of CIO activities and to identify CIO's main skills. The results show that managing projects, interacting with top management teams, optimizing business processes and making strategic decisions are main CIO's activities; and that the importance recognized to these activities is influenced by characteristics such as the CIO's age or the hierarchical structure of the organization. Regarding CIO's skills, understanding business processes and operations, and strategic thinking and planning, are the ones CIOs identified as being the most important.

An Exploratory Study on the Influencers of the Perceived Relevance of CIO's Activities

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Varajão ◽  
António Trigo ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Business Context ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Perceived Relevance ◽  
The One

Over the past decades several studies aimed to rank the importance of CIO's activities. One aspect that stands out in these studies is the difficulty in finding two studies that agree on the relative importance of CIO's activities. On the one hand, this can be explained by the CIO role evolution. On the other hand, there may be certain variables that influence the perception of the importance of CIO's activities. This paper presents the results of an exploratory study developed to identify the current CIO's main activities and to verify whether CIO's demographics and CIO's business context influence the perception of the importance of those activities. The results show that managing projects, interacting with top management teams, optimizing business processes and making strategic decisions are main CIO's activities; and the importance recognized to these activities is influenced by characteristics such as the CIO's age or the hierarchical structure of the organization.

Strategic Management's Potential Contributions to a Theory of Entrepreneurship

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Sandberg
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Management Teams ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Business Creation ◽  
New Business ◽  
Entrepreneurship Theory

The article offers an overview of strategic management and its various schools of thought, followed by a summary of the field of entrepreneurship and its own disagreements over definition and boundaries. It suggests that strategic management might help resolve such disagreements through its focus on “the entrepreneurial work of the organization,” which is based on variables that describe the organization's industry, resources, processes, and strategy. Finally, the article both describes and proposes contributions of strategic management to entrepreneurship theory, specifically addressing issues of new business creation, innovation, opportunity seeking, risk assumption, top management teams, and group processes in strategic decisions.

The impact of the top management teams’ knowledge and experience on strategic decisions and performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng-Yu Li
Keyword(s):  
Positive Association ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Management Teams ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper explores whether top management teams’ (TMTs) knowledge and experience are significant predictors of a firm’s strategic decisions and organization outcomes. The existing research throws little light on how firms with limited resources embedded in TMTs, particularly in emerging markets, innovate and achieve success in foreign countries. We focus on the impact of TMTs’ functional background heterogeneity and international experience on innovation and internationalization, as well as examine the relationship between innovation, internationalization and performance. The proposed relationships are empirically investigated in a sample of Taiwanese-listed companies operating in the electronics industry. The results demonstrate a positive association between a TMT’s functional background heterogeneity and a firm’s innovation. Moreover, a TMT’s international experience relates positively to a firm’s innovation and internationalization, therefore firms with a higher level of innovation achieve a higher level of internationalization.

Dynamic modeling of strategic thinking for top management teams and its impact on firm performance: a system dynamics approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aqueeb Sohail Shaik ◽  
Sanjay Dhir
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Modeling And Simulation ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Psychological Constructs ◽  
Thinking Process

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to model the strategic thinking process, considering the different psychological traits of TMTs (top management teams) and how the technological dynamism affects the strategies framed together impacting the performance of the firm.Design/methodology/approachModeling and simulation are done in this study using the system dynamics (SD) tool. The data are extracted using social media analytics, and the same is given as an input for the SDmodel, which is used for modeling and simulation of the interdependencies between the psychological factors, technological dynamism and firm performance. The analysis decodes how a change in the thinking process of a TMT has an impact on the performance of the company in an automobile market.FindingsThe study has explained how different psychological traits affect the thinking process of a TMT and how the strategies framed with this thinking behavior have an impact on firm performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited only to the automobile industry in India, and only partial psychological constructs were considered to examine their impact on firm performance. This study can be further extended by analyzing the same to various other industries along with many other psychological constructs.Practical implicationsThe findings identify the change in behavior of the performance due to the thinking process and technological dynamism. This helps the top management to take into consideration different factors that affect the strategies framed for the company and what are the threshold points in the system that are to be focused on during the framing of a strategy.Originality/valueThe study fills the unattended gaps in the literature regarding how the psychological traits are interdependent and how their relationship is affecting the thinking process, which is going to have an impact on the behavior of the firm performance. It also adds to the literature of systems thinking.

scholarly journals Upper Echelon Theory: Role of Community and Strategy

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Majdi Anwar Quttainah
Keyword(s):  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Management Teams ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Upper Echelon ◽  
Top Executives ◽  
Upper Echelon Theory ◽  
Better Than

In this paper, we argue that community plays an important role in shaping the values and characteristics of top management teams. It builds on upper echelon theory to posit that community level characteristics are instrumental in framing the cognitions of CEOs and top executives. Strategic decisions made by managers in organizations represent the significant impact community has on top management teams. Examining the influence community has on top management teams provides additional implications about why certain firms perform better than others.

Strategic Decision-Making in Business

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Wooldridge ◽  
Birton Cowden
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Organizational Levels ◽  
Effective Decision Making

Scholarly interest in how managers make strategic decisions dates from the inception of the strategic management field and continues in the present. Although such decision-making was originally conceived as a completely rational, top-management process, contemporary thinking recognizes that strategies from across multiple organizational levels change within social and political contexts. Within this broad domain, multiple research streams address a wide variety of topics and issues. Prominent among these are, (1) the extent to which strategic decisions are formed through comprehensive analysis versus piecemeal decision-making, (2) how characteristics of top managers and the composition of top management teams affect strategic decision-making, (3) the role of politics, conflict, and consensus in strategy making, (4) how cognitive biases and heuristics influence the process, (5) when and how intuitive judgments can form the basis for effective decision-making, and (6) how managers at various organizational levels participate in the process. Research across these streams is both descriptive and normative, with a focus on contextual contingencies and relationships to firm performance. Taken as a whole this literature has significantly enhanced understanding of how strategies form within organizations. Contemporary work continues to provide new insights and demonstrates the continued value of this productive area of study.

Parafia unicka w Rachaniach do 1811 roku/ The Uniate Parish in Rachanie until 1811

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Adam Frykowski
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ancillary Equipment

AbstractThe following paper depicts the history of Saint Simeon Stylites Uniate Parish in Rachanie since it became known in historical sources until 1811- that is the time it ceased to be an independent church unit. The introduction of the article contains the geographical location of the parish, its size and the position within the hierarchical structure of the Church. Having analysed post-visit inspection protocols left by Chelm Bishops, the appearance as well as fittings and ancillary equipment of the church in Rachanie in that particular period are reported. Moreover, the list of 4 local clergymen is recreated and their benefice is determined. As far as possible, both the number of worshipers and the number of Holy Communion receivers is determined.

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