2003
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310457560
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The stable core and dynamic periphery in top management teams

Abstract: This study explores how top management teams make strategic decisions. The findings indicate that the top management team performs a variety of monitoring and control functions within most firms, but that a single team with stable composition does not make strategic choices in most organizations. Instead, different groups, with members from multiple organizational levels, form to make various strategic decisions. A stable subset of the top team forms the core of each of these multiple decision‐making bodies. T… Show more

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“…[24][25][26] A functional management team actively participates in carrying out and monitoring the organization's strategy. [27,28] A well-functioning management team is also a strong decision-making body [29][30][31] and increases the organization's innovativeness. [32][33][34] In a hospital, management team membership is mainly based on the person's hierarchical or professional position within the organization, and not, for instance, on personal qualities, or an analysis of the talent or knowhow the management team lacks, or the ideal combination of demographic factors.…”
Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[24][25][26] A functional management team actively participates in carrying out and monitoring the organization's strategy. [27,28] A well-functioning management team is also a strong decision-making body [29][30][31] and increases the organization's innovativeness. [32][33][34] In a hospital, management team membership is mainly based on the person's hierarchical or professional position within the organization, and not, for instance, on personal qualities, or an analysis of the talent or knowhow the management team lacks, or the ideal combination of demographic factors.…”
Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Esse quadro vem timidamente apresentando alguma mudança com a publicação de alguns estudos recentes que tratam da questão da decisão acerca do processo de decisão (VROOM, 2002;NUTT, 2002;ROBERTO, 2003). No entanto, esses estudos, conforme já mencionado, apenas abordam parte do problema relacionado a decidir como decidir e deixam outras questões que precisam ser respondidas em aberto.…”
Section: Por Que Estudar O Tema Decidir Como Decidirunclassified
“…Por exemplo, por um lado, sabe-se que na maioria das organizações decisões estratégicas não são tomadas somente pela Alta Direção, mas contam com o envolvimento de membros originários de diferentes níveis hierárquicos e atributos tais como expertise, responsabilidade pela implementação e relações pessoais e que podem influenciar a composição do grupo que irá decidir (ROBERTO, 2003).…”
Section: Por Que Estudar O Tema Decidir Como Decidirunclassified
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