Top Management Team Tenure and Top Manager Causal Attributions at Declining Firms Attempting Turnarounds
研究了在试图扭亏的衰退企业中，长期任职的高管团队与短期团队对组织问题的感知差异，发现高管更替多的团队更倾向于将绩效下滑归因于内部、稳定且可控的因素。
Do members of long-tenured top management teams perceive organizational problems differently than members of shorter-tenured teams? We examined this question using the reasons that chief executive officers and other top managers at firms attempting turnarounds offered for their firms' performance declines. Drawing insights from social psychology and the literature on organizational decline and turnaround, we predicted that top managers who were members of management teams where many top executives had been replaced would be more likely to attribute performance problems to causes that were internal to the firm, stable, and controllable than top managers from longer-tenured teams. The results confirmed our predictions and suggest that the composition of the top management team, which can be altered through the replacement of executives, is strongly associated with the perception of problems at firms attempting to recover from firm-threatening performance declines.