Top management team diversity and firm performance in digital era

• Autorzy: Velinov Emil , Konovalova Natalia

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.17512/pjms.2022.26.2.24

Warianty tytułu

PL

Różnorodność zespołu najwyższego kierownictwa a wyniki firmy w erze cyfrowej

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The paper sheds light on impactful diversity dimensions of upper echelons across German companies and their impact on the appointment of Chief Digitalization/Information Officer during the turbulent years of internet of things and digitalization in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The study consists of a literature review on diversity across senior management of German firms in a digital era characterized by global business technological digital disruption. The paper discusses how the emerging phenomena of diversity across top management affect firm performance during the period of incremental innovation and turbulent digital trasnformation of multinational firms. The novelty of the study is nested in the fact that it provides evidence from top management teams' diversity from the advanced markets, such as Germany, where digitalization is one of the priorities of the German government but also of the German business in order to drive long-term firms’ performance and firms’ sustainability. The motivation behind conducting the research on top management teams' diversity across top German companies in the digital era is the fact that the crucial importance of senior management skills, competencies and knowledge are key factors for firm performance and prosperity. Moreover, in Germany, many of the most successful firms have appointed executive positions in their top management in order to manage the rapid shift towards more digitalized business and higher firm performance in a volatile global business environment. Study results show that top management team diversity positively affects the appointment of Chief Digitalization/Information Officer. Also, the paper results show that firms with incumbent Chief Digital Officers in their top management team tend to be more intact with the digital era than firms that have not appointed any Chief Digitalization Officer.

PL

Artykuł rzuca światło na istotne wymiary różnorodności zespołu najwyższego kierownictwa w niemieckich firmach oraz ich wpływ na powoływanie dyrektora ds. digitalizacji / informacji w burzliwych latach Internetu rzeczy i cyfryzacji w drugiej dekadzie XXI wieku. Badanie składa się z przeglądu literatury w tematyce różnorodności wśród kadry kierowniczej wyższego szczebla niemieckich firm ery cyfrowej, charakteryzującej się globalnymi zakłóceniami technologicznymi i cyfrowymi. W artykule omówiono, w jaki sposób pojawiające się zjawiska różnorodności w obrębie najwyższego kierownictwa wpływają na wyniki firm w okresie innowacji przyrostowych i burzliwej transformacji cyfrowej firm międzynarodowych. Nowością w badaniu jest fakt, że dostarcza ono dowodów pochodzących z różnorodnych zespołów najwyższego kierownictwa z rynków rozwiniętych, takich jak Niemcy, gdzie cyfryzacja jest jednym z priorytetów niemieckiego rządu, ale także niemieckiej gospodarki ukierunkowanej na napędzanie długoterminowych wyników firm i ich trwałości. Motywacją do przeprowadzenia badania dotyczącego różnorodności zespołów zarządzających w czołowych niemieckich firmach w erze cyfrowej jest fakt, że umiejętności, kompetencje oraz wiedza kadry zarządzającej wyższego szczebla są kluczowymi czynnikami wpływającymi na wyniki i bogactwo t firmy. Ponadto w Niemczech wiele firm odnoszących największe sukcesy wyznaczyło stanowiska kierownicze, aby zarządzać szybką zmianą w kierunku bardziej zdigitalizowanej gospodarki i lepszych wyników firm w niestabilnym globalnym środowisku biznesowym. Wyniki badania pokazują, że różnorodność kadry najwyższego kierownictwa pozytywnie wpływa na powołanie dyrektora ds. digitalizacji / informacji. Ponadto, wyniki badania pokazują, że firmy, które mają w swoim zespole dyrektora ds. digitalizacji, wydają się być bardziej odporne na erę cyfrową niż firmy, które nie powołały dyrektora ds. cyfryzacji.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

top management team; diversity; chief digitalization officer; digital era

PL

zespół najwyższego kierownictwa; różnorodność; dyrektor ds. cyfryzacji; era cyfrowa

• Wydawca: Czestochowa University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Polish Journal of Management Studies
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: Vol. 26, No. 2
• Strony: 396--410
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 50 poz., rys.,tab.

Twórcy

autor

Velinov Emil

• SKODA AUTO University, Czechia
• RISEBA University of Applied Sciences, Latvia

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6073-1196

autor

Konovalova Natalia

• RISEBA University of Applied Sciences, Latvia

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4072-4479

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).