Purpose

This paper aims to revisit the long-standing in the management literature argument of “matching managers to strategy” in the new empirical context of the top management team (TMT) and firm internationalisation. The purpose of this paper is to examine the consequences of matching nationalities of the TMT members to the multinational corporations’ (MNC) countries of operation.

Design/methodology/approach

This research is based on the quantitative methods. The authors use the traditional regression analysis, with the ordinary least squares estimation, in the moderated multiple regression models.

Findings

The study findings point to the importance of the asset-based exposure to international environments for the benefits of the TMT nationality matching to materialise. They re-affirm the critical remarks on the early “matching managers to strategy” frameworks, which indicated that the effectiveness of matching is underpinned by the detailed specification of the matching contingencies that influence the matching process.

Originality/value

The measure of matching the TMT foreign nationals to the MNCs’ host countries constitutes a novel way of capturing the TMT internationalisation, as opposed to measuring the incidence of foreigners on the TMTs or the TMT nationality diversity variable. It therefore underlines the aspect of matching in terms of the cultural fit between the TMT nationalities and countries of MNCs’ operations.

中文翻译：

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在公司国际化战略的背景下重新审视“将经理与战略相匹配”的论点

目的

本文旨在在高层管理团队 (TMT) 和公司国际化的新经验背景下，重新审视管理文献中长期存在的“将管理者与战略相匹配”的论点。本文的目的是研究将 TMT 成员的国籍与跨国公司 (MNC) 运营国家/地区相匹配的后果。

设计/方法/方法

本研究基于定量方法。作者在缓和多元回归模型中使用传统回归分析和普通最小二乘估计。

发现

研究结果指出，基于资产的国际环境敞口对于实现 TMT 国籍匹配的好处的重要性。他们重申了对早期“将管理者与战略相匹配”框架的批判性评论，这表明匹配的有效性取决于对影响匹配过程的匹配突发事件的详细说明。

原创性/价值

将 TMT 外国人与跨国公司的东道国相匹配的措施构成了一种捕捉 TMT 国际化的新方法，而不是衡量外国人在 TMT 上的发生率或 TMT 国籍多样性变量。因此，它强调了 TMT 国籍与跨国公司运营国之间文化契合度的匹配方面。