Cultivating a resilient top management team: The importance of relational connections and strategic decision comprehensiveness

Abraham Carmeli; Yair Friedman; Asher Tishler

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2012.06.002

Cultivating a resilient top management team: The importance of relational connections and strategic decision comprehensiveness

Abraham Carmeli, Yair Friedman, Asher Tishler

Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

Despite growing research interest in both top management team (TMT) processes and resilience in organizations, these two streams of research have remained largely separate, let alone fully developed. In this study, we examine whether and why relational connections marked by connectivity facilitate strategic decision comprehensiveness, and cultivate two forms of TMT resilience that capture both efficacious beliefs and adaptive capacity. Based on a sample of 74 TMTs, the findings of this study indicate that (1) connectivity is positively related to strategic decision comprehensiveness, (2) strategic decision comprehensiveness is positively associated with both forms of TMT resilience, and (3) connectivity is indirectly, through strategic decision comprehensiveness, related to both TMT resilience-efficacious beliefs and TMT resilience-adaptive capacity. These findings have direct implications for research on TMTs, decision-making processes, and resilience by specifying the ways in which relational connections help build capacities in senior executive teams.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	148-159
Number of pages	12
Journal	Safety Science
Volume	51
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2012.06.002
State	Published - Jan 2013
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
We wish to thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. We also thank Esther Singer for her editorial comments. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2010 ISC meeting. We acknowledge the financial support of the Henry Crown Institute of Business Research in Israel at The Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University.

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We wish to thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. We also thank Esther Singer for her editorial comments. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2010 ISC meeting. We acknowledge the financial support of the Henry Crown Institute of Business Research in Israel at The Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University.

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Henry Crown Institute of Business Research in Israel
Tel Aviv University

Keywords

Connectivity
Resilience
Strategic decision comprehensiveness
Top management teams

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