Corporate Performance Project

Research on Top Management Team composition and its effects on corporate performance has a history of over 20 years. The idea is that how a Top Management Team is composed determines how Top Management Teams take decisions, what kind of decisions they make which would finally determine corporate performance. This so called `Upper Echelon? research is almost exclusively American oriented. We want to extend this line of research by applying the conceptual framework to Europe. Additionally, we will incorporate country differences as explanatory variable.

Project 1: European Executive Boards and corporate performance: Upper Echelon Theory in Europe.

• Daan van der Mee (2007) Nationality Diversity in Top Management: Teams and Firm Performance: a European Perspective, MSc Thesis, International Business and Management, Faculty of Management and Organization, University of Groningen
• Van Veen, Kees, Niels Hermes & Daan van der Mee, TMT diversity and company performance in Europe, work-in-progress.