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Top management team faultlines and corporate industrial diversification: The mediating role of strategic attentional breadth.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Integrating faultline theory and the attention-based view, this paper explores the impact and process mechanisms of two types of faultlines (i.e., task-related faultlines and relationship-related faultlines) within top management teams (TMTs), specifically on corporate industrial diversification.

Methods

Based on the unbalanced panel data of Chinese A-share non-financial listed firms from 2008-2021, this study uses the fixed-effects model for hypothesis testing.

Results

First, task-related TMT faultlines promote corporate industrial diversification, while conversely, relationship-related TMT faultlines inhibit corporate industrial diversification. Second, task-related TMT faultlines promote firms' strategic attentional breadth, while conversely, relationship-related TMT faultlines inhibit firms' strategic attentional breadth. Third, strategic attentional breadth plays a partially-mediating role in the relationship between both types of TMT faultlines and firms' industrial diversification.

Discussion

This study extends the research related to corporate industrial diversification based on micro-level explanatory mechanisms, and also provides implications and guidance for the rational allocation of TMT and firms' industrial diversification management practices.

SUBMITTER: Chen W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996410 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Top management team faultlines and corporate industrial diversification: The mediating role of strategic attentional breadth.

Chen Weihong W Chen Chen C Xiong Xiaoguo X

Frontiers in psychology 20230223

<h4>Introduction</h4>Integrating faultline theory and the attention-based view, this paper explores the impact and process mechanisms of two types of faultlines (i.e., task-related faultlines and relationship-related faultlines) within top management teams (TMTs), specifically on corporate industrial diversification.<h4>Methods</h4>Based on the unbalanced panel data of Chinese A-share non-financial listed firms from 2008-2021, this study uses the fixed-effects model for hypothesis testing.<h4>Re ...[more]

PMID: 36910789

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Top management team faultlines and corporate industrial diversification: The mediating role of strategic attentional breadth.

Introduction

Methods

Results

Discussion

Publications

Top management team faultlines and corporate industrial diversification: The mediating role of strategic attentional breadth.

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