Interfaces are of growing importance for theorizing and testing the influence of strategic
leaders on firm behavior and actions. But despite their relevance and ubiquity, the lack of a …

Interviews are an important method for studying a wide range of phenomena, especially
those that directly involve members of the so-called business elite, which typically includes …

Two major themes in the upper echelon decision making literature are the efficacy of the
CEO and the composition of the top management team (TMT). Little research has examined …

In this chapter, the authors discuss how visual artifacts may support the analysis and
interpretation of qualitative data in organization studies. They draws on their own experience …

We explore whether, and how, Top Management Team (TMT) cohesion can affect the
collective turnover intentions of employees, through two interrelated interface processes …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are the systems of forces that encourage and sustain
entrepreneurship in geographic areas. Vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems exhibit …

As researchers and consultants, we have spent the last few years helping a dozen major
public and private organizations understand what went wrong with their strategic planning …

Current theory acknowledges the central role of top managers in shaping the firm's overall
pattern of competitive activity. But it gives short shrift to the multifaceted processes by which …

How and why do executives originate high-quality ideas for their firms' responses to major,
unprecedented, exogenous shocks? I develop a novel, emergence-based theory of idea …

How can new CEOs–as the architects of their top management teams (TMT)–compose the
executive group to realize high performance? We attend to this question by drawing on the …