Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

4-2022

Abstract

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.

Keywords

International business enterprises, top management, strategic management

Discipline

International Business | Strategic Management Policy

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

Journal of International Business Studies

Volume

53

First Page

481

Last Page

515

ISSN

0047-2506

Identifier

10.1057/s41267-021-00456-9

Publisher

Springer

Embargo Period

4-11-2021

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-021-00456-9

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