Research on Conflict Level and Conflict Effect among Top Management Teams Based on Team Heterogeneity
Top management team is a senior management team with different professional and social backgrounds, who have a rich social capital and knowledge capital, have good adaptability and rapid response speed of technology and market environment, and are able to make effective decisions with limited available information. Although TMTs heterogeneity plays an innovative role in promoting innovation development, but the heterogeneity is too large that may also destroy the teams harmony. Studies have shown that when cognitive conflicts level excesses a certain level, which is likely to trigger emotional conflict, and thus the nature of the constructive conflict may transfer to a destructive conflict. Therefore, TMTs heterogeneity has a great impact on the conflict level and conflict effect in top management team. This paper summarizes the relationship among team characteristics, team conflict levels, team conflict effects and measurements based on TMTs heterogeneity.
Chen Yun
School of Management,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan,Hubei,P.R.China,430070
国际会议
The 7th International Conference on Innovation and Management(第七届创新与管理国际会议 ICIM 2010)
武汉
英文
1113-1116
2010-12-04（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）