Managers in the Context of Strategic Content: Industrial Organization Theory and Resource-Based View Predictions for the Selection of Managers
- Topics:
- Business Ethics
- Tags:
- Hypotheses,
- Lund University,
- Manager,
- Theory
- Source:
- Lund University
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Overview: This paper analyzes if managers are recruited by matching their background with strategy requirements. The prediction power of existing industrial organization theory hypotheses and developed resource-based view hypotheses are tested on a sample of Swedish top managers. Results show that individual variables, such as an individual's demographic similarity to the top management team, are correlated with a higher hierarchical position. However, a specific strategic background seems more of a liability, in that such a background has an almost entirely negative correlation with a higher hierarchical position.
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Format: PDF | Size: 80KB | Date: May 2001 | Pages: 24
