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The role of top management team diversity in shaping the performance of business model innovation: a threshold effect.
- Source :
- Technology Analysis & Strategic Management; Feb2018, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p241-253, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Business model innovation is one of the firm’s most important strategic decisions. Top management team (TMT), as the critical decision-makers, has essential influence upon such decisions. However, the role of TMT diversity in shaping the performance of business model innovation is less explored in the literature. Based on a sample dataset of 906 observations of small and medium enterprises from China Startups Stock Market during the period of 2009–2011, we find that TMT diversity exhibits a significant threshold effect on the relationship between business model innovation (in terms of novelty-centred and efficiency-centred business model) and firm performance. More specifically, when TMT functional diversity arrives at a certain level, the positive relationship between novelty-centred business model and firm performance becomes more pronounced. On the other hand, the positive relationship between efficiency-centred business model innovation and firm performance will be more significant when TMT tenure diversity increases to a certain level. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09537325
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 126917339
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2017.1300250