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, rela

SUBMITTER: Chen W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996410 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature