Two views from the bridge: how CFOs and SME leaders perceive top team dynamics

Nigel Nicholson and David Cannon

European Management Journal, 2000, vol. 18, issue 4, 367-376

Abstract: The study compares the views of two kinds of UK business leaders of the top teams in which they play a role: 72 CFOs from the UK's largest and most successful companies, and 44 CEOs of Britain's most successful independent companies, all of which are small- to medium-sized. Results suggest that the psychological diversity of these two groups' teams differs, as does their approach to decision-making. Results show that for both groups, modes of decision-making are highly issue dependent, and also that their self-rated effectiveness differs across domains. The large corporate entities of the CFO sample seem to have top team psychological dynamics which favour risk control at the expense of creativity, with a reverse pattern in the more entrepreneurial companies of the CEOs.

Keywords: Business; leaders; Top; teams; CEOs; CFOs; Team; dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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