A Literature Review on Upper Echelons Theory

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.220603.030How to use a DOI?

Keywords

upper echelons theory; managers’ backgrounds; managers’ characteristics; corporate decisions

Abstract

In this paper, it reviews research on the upper echelons theory. To be specific, I concentrate on the factors that might influence managers’ corporate decisions, which are the formal education degree, major degree, socioeconomic backgrounds, gender, individual experiences, age and tenures. Previous literatures reveal that formal education degree, advantaged backgrounds have positive association with corporate decisions, while negative relationships were shown between age and tenure and corporate decisions. Individual experiences will be separated as divisional managers and specialist CEOs to explains the linkage with corporate decisions. I hope this article may provide some implications to researchers, corporate managers, capital market investors, regulators, and so on.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ye Tian
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/01
TI  - A Literature Review on Upper Echelons Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Management and Economic Development (ICEMED 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 169
EP  - 173
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220603.030
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