TY - JOUR
T1 - Generalist versus specialist CEO and R&D commitment
T2 - Evidence from an emerging market
AU - Agnihotri, Arpita
AU - Bhattacharya, Saurabh
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Associate Editor: Dr. Conor O’Kane and the two anonymous reviewers for their excellent insights and feedback that tremendously helped us to improve the paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Leveraging the human capital specificity and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)-top management team (TMT) interface literature, this study explores the impact of generalist versus specialist CEOs on R&D commitments by Indian firms under the boundary conditions of TMTs’ functional and educational diversity. Based on a sample of 253 firms over a period of 6 years, in contrast to previous studies, our findings suggest that specialist CEOs are more likely to invest in R&D than generalist CEOs; however, when supported by functionally and educationally diverse TMT, the R&D commitment of generalist CEOs increases as well.
AB - Leveraging the human capital specificity and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)-top management team (TMT) interface literature, this study explores the impact of generalist versus specialist CEOs on R&D commitments by Indian firms under the boundary conditions of TMTs’ functional and educational diversity. Based on a sample of 253 firms over a period of 6 years, in contrast to previous studies, our findings suggest that specialist CEOs are more likely to invest in R&D than generalist CEOs; however, when supported by functionally and educationally diverse TMT, the R&D commitment of generalist CEOs increases as well.
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U2 - 10.1017/jmo.2021.7
DO - 10.1017/jmo.2021.7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103497181
SN - 1833-3672
JO - Journal of Management and Organization
JF - Journal of Management and Organization
ER -