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Career patterns of top management team members in five countries: an optimal matching analysis

Torsten Biemann Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, Jacobs University, Bremen, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Joachim Wolf Institute of World Economy, Kiel, Germany
Pages 975-991 | Published online: 28 May 2009
 
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Abstract

This paper introduces optimal matching analysis (OMA) to the field of top management research. With this method, we develop six career patterns of top management team (TMT) members from five countries based on their international experience, organizational tenure and professional experience. The results provide strong support for the significance of these patterns, since each country (Denmark, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) shows one to four predominant career patterns of their managers and the occurrence of these patterns also differs significantly between the fields of activity within the TMT (chairperson, head of a division, primary activities and support activities).

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