Abstract
Chief executive officers (CEOs) have a substantial influence on the decision-making processes of the top management team (TMT) and the performance of the firm in general, and this influence is particularly important in small-sized family firms. By integrating research on CEO qualities and the CEO–TMT interface to explain how they interact in ways that drive firm performance, we provide a first attempt to highlight the importance of CEO capacity to implement decisions that were made following a comprehensive process (i.e., strategic decision comprehensiveness, SDC) for the performance of small-sized family firms. In so doing, we provide a micro-foundation lens and also direct research attention to decision implementation, a key issue in the field of strategic management, which unfortunately has relatively been overlooked in the extant literature. Results of multisource survey data collected from CEOs and TMT members of 131 small-sized family firms indicate a positive interaction effect between CEO implementation capacity, the TMT SDC, and the performance of small-sized family firms.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 256-280 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Behavioral Science |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2021.
Funding
We are thankful to the Associate Editor and our anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Raya Strauss Family Business Research Center at Tel Aviv University. All remaining errors are entirely our own. The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Raya Strauss Family Business Research Center at Tel Aviv University (grant number 2019-1).
Funders | Funder number |
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Raya Strauss Family Business Research Center | |
Tel Aviv University | 2019-1 |
Keywords
- CEO implementation
- comprehensiveness
- performance
- small entrepreneurial family firms
- top management teams