Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Management and Economic Development (ICEMED 2022)

A Literature Review on Upper Echelons Theory

Authors
Ye Tian*
IOE-Social Research Institute, University College London, London
*Corresponding author. Email: zczlyt6@ucl.ac.uk
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Ye Tian
Available Online 1 July 2022.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Management and Economic Development (ICEMED 2022)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
1 July 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-585-5
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/aebmr.k.220603.030How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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