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Innovating beyond the horizon : CEO career horizon, top management composition, and R&D intensity
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Heyden, Mariano L. M., Reimer, Marko and van Doorn, Sebastiaan (2017) Innovating beyond the horizon : CEO career horizon, top management composition, and R&D intensity. Human Resource Management, 56 (2). pp. 205-224. doi:10.1002/hrm.21730 ISSN 0090-4848.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21730
Abstract
Decreasing research and development (R&D) can impair the ability of firms to remain innovative in the long run. CEOs have been accused of curtailing R&D investments as they approach expected retirement, yet received findings on R&D investment behaviors of late-career CEOs are mixed. We argue that one reason for these inconsistent findings could be that traditional approaches overlook the fact that CEOs are not isolated agents in making R&D decisions. We build on the premise that CEOs interact with their top management team (TMT) when shaping R&D strategy and advance a contextualized view of CEO dispositions in their late career stages as being constrained or enabled by their TMT. We hypothesize that some TMT attributes (e.g., tenure and age) may amplify, whereas others (e.g., functional experience and education) may mitigate inclinations to reduce R&D. Our findings, based on a longitudinal sample of 100 US manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2008, provide nuanced insights into how different TMT characteristics influence CEO-TMT dynamics, with TMT age and TMT tenure playing particularly pronounced roles. We discuss implications of our CEO-TMT interface approach for theory and practice.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Human Resource Management | ||||||||
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0090-4848 | ||||||||
Official Date: | March 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 56 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 205-224 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1002/hrm.21730 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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