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Strategic orientation and characteristics of upper management
Author(s) -
Chaganti Rajeswararao,
Sambharya Rakesh
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
strategic management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 11.035
H-Index - 286
eISSN - 1097-0266
pISSN - 0143-2095
DOI - 10.1002/smj.4250080409
Subject(s) - upper echelons , business , orientation (vector space) , focus (optics) , marketing , strategic management , industrial organization , operations management , management , economics , mathematics , physics , geometry , optics
Every organization reflects the background of its most powerful top managers; what the organization does and the way it carries out its functions could be explained, in part at least, by the profile of its upper echelon. The relationship between the strategic orientation of three tobacco companies, the proportion of executives recruited from outside the company and the proportion of executives from different functional backgrounds in the upper echelon of the companies is the focus of this paper.