摘要
高管团队的职能特征如何反映到企业绩效中一直是管理领域研究的重点,但是其实证检验结果呈现出复杂化的特征,一致性的结论尚未达成。本文从高阶梯理论和信息处理理论出发,较为全面地探索高管团队职能异质性如何影响企业绩效。研究结果表明:(1)高管团队职能异质性对企业绩效水平有负向的影响;(2)高管团队职能异质性会显著促进管理者认知集中性和复杂性的提高;(3)管理者认知集中性和复杂性的提高会进一步促进绩效水平的提高;(4)管理者认知是高管团队职能异质性影响企业绩效水平的中介机制;(5)高管团队职能异质性的提高会显著促进团队冲突的提高;(6)团队冲突的增强会抑制企业绩效水平的提高;(7)团队冲突是职能异质性影响企业绩效水平的中介机制。
The Upper Echelon Theory triggers a large number of researches to focus on the relationship between the characters of the top management team(TMT)and corporate performance,among which top management team functional heterogeneity is one of the most explored variables compared with tenure heterogeneity,educational heterogeneity and so on.However,the relationship between functional heterogeneity and corporate performance is rather conflicting.On the one hand,from the perspective of information processing theory,some scholars believe functional heterogeneity plays an important role in improving the corporate performance because TMT with a high functional heterogeneity can be more sensitive to changes in the business environment as functional heterogeneity provides the whole team multiple views of perceiving the information based on their different functions,so that TMT is able to make more flexible and rapid strategies in response to business environmental change.On the other hand,from the perspective of group conflict,some scholars hold the view that functional heterogeneity can damage corporate performance.This is because TMT with a high functional heterogeneity cannot easily and quickly decide how to respond to business environmental change as team members are more likely to deal with the information based on their functions.The above two perspectives trying to find out the relationship between functional heterogeneity and corporate performance,are substantially studied and empirically supported by many scholars and their papers.This inconsistent result motivates more scholars to further explore the relationship between functional heterogeneity and corporate performance.As a result,this study examines many moderating variables,including CEO power,environmental uncertainty,and other context variables,and obtains valuable conclusions.This exploration towards moderating variables is beneficial and advocated by Hambrick,the founder of Upper Echelon Theory,as he suggested scholars should consider the impact of context
作者
邓新明
刘禹
龙贤义
叶珍
罗欢
DENG Xinming;LIU Yu;LONG Xianyi;YE Zhen;LUO Huan(School of Economics and Management,Wuhan University,Wuhan 430072,China;Institute of Strategic Management,Wuhan University,Wuhan 430072,China)
出处
《管理工程学报》
CSSCI
CSCD
北大核心
2020年第3期32-44,共13页
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
基金
国家自然科学基金资助项目(71572132、71272232)
武汉大学人文社会科学青年学者学术发展团队建设项目(Whu2016011)。
关键词
高管团队(TMT)
职能异质性
管理者认知
团队冲突
企业绩效
Top management team(TMT)
Functional heterogeneity
Managerial cognition
Group conflict
Corporate performance
