Interrelationships between TMT management styles and organizational innovation
Abstract
The major purpose of this study is empirically to investigate the relationships among management styles of top management teams (TMT), decision‐making modes, and organizational learning and innovation for manufacturing firms in Taiwan. Through a series of questionnaire surveys on 115 stock‐listed manufacturing firms in Taiwan, conclusions: arrives at the following firms having TMT with a higher level of empowerment and consensus management style tend to adopt a participative decision‐making mode and emphasize team learning; firms having TMT with aggressive and internal interaction characters tend to exercise higher levels of organizational learning and innovation; and firms with a higher extent of organizational learning tend to adopt participative decision‐making modes and perform better in innovation.
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Citation
Wu, W., Chiang, C. and Jiang, J. (2002), "Interrelationships between TMT management styles and organizational innovation", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 102 No. 3, pp. 171-183. https://doi.org/10.1108/02635570210421363
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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