TY - JOUR
T1 - Top management teams in international business research
T2 - A review and suggestions for future research
AU - Cuypers, Ilya R P
AU - Patel, Charmi
AU - Ertug, Gokhan
AU - Li, Jiatao
AU - Cuypers, Youtha
N1 - Funding Information#
This research is supported in part by#
the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong#
grant HKUST#16505817#
and 16507219#
FCT-Fundacao para a Ciência e a Tecnologia#
UID/ECO/00124/2019#
UIDB/00124/2020#
and Social Sciences DataLab#
PINFRA/22209/2016#
and POR Lisboa and POR Norte#
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Academy of International Business.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article reviews and critically assesses the large and diverse literature on top management teams (TMTs) that has focused on international business (IB) issues. We apply an organizing framework that centers around four key elements of TMTs – TMT composition, structure, processes, and governance – and the most commonly studied IB-related choices and outcomes. This framework allows us to synthesize the contributions of the literature on TMTs in IB and identify opportunities for future research. The contributions of our review are threefold. First, we offer a roadmap for navigating the large and diverse literature on TMTs in IB. Second, we provide a systematic and critical evaluation of the key empirical and theoretical developments in this literature. Third, we highlight opportunities for future research to make theoretical and empirical advancements in each of the areas of our organizing framework. In these future research opportunities, we draw particular attention to the need to further contextualize TMT research in IB by proposing opportunities to more systematically incorporate the unique nature of the MNE and the external environment in which the MNE operates.
AB - This article reviews and critically assesses the large and diverse literature on top management teams (TMTs) that has focused on international business (IB) issues. We apply an organizing framework that centers around four key elements of TMTs – TMT composition, structure, processes, and governance – and the most commonly studied IB-related choices and outcomes. This framework allows us to synthesize the contributions of the literature on TMTs in IB and identify opportunities for future research. The contributions of our review are threefold. First, we offer a roadmap for navigating the large and diverse literature on TMTs in IB. Second, we provide a systematic and critical evaluation of the key empirical and theoretical developments in this literature. Third, we highlight opportunities for future research to make theoretical and empirical advancements in each of the areas of our organizing framework. In these future research opportunities, we draw particular attention to the need to further contextualize TMT research in IB by proposing opportunities to more systematically incorporate the unique nature of the MNE and the external environment in which the MNE operates.
KW - foreign market entry
KW - internationalization theories and foreign market
KW - top management teams
KW - upper echelon theory
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U2 - 10.1057/s41267-021-00456-9
DO - 10.1057/s41267-021-00456-9
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85112689573
SN - 0047-2506
VL - 53
SP - 481
EP - 515
JO - Journal Of International Business Studies
JF - Journal Of International Business Studies
ER -