Managerial Style – A Literature Review and Research Agenda

Kerstin Lopatta, Sebastian Tideman, Katarina Böttcher and Timm Wichern

International Business Research, 2019, vol. 12, issue 2, 80-98

Abstract: This literature review provides an overview of existing studies in the area of managerial style and its effect on firms’ strategic decisions and performance. It highlights which managers’ characteristics have been considered as determinants for managerial style so far and provides potential avenues for future research. After analyzing the content of all articles that were published in seven top-tier journals in the area of finance and banking between 2000 and 2016, the articles on managerial style were included in this literature review and categorized according to the main manager characteristic of investigation. The paper illustrates how similar characteristics are measured differently, and how different measurements of manager’s influence the managerial style−firm strategy relationship differentially. We provide avenues for future research in the area of managerial style, that is, future research may investigate board member’s characteristics at a more aggregated level (board level). Also, future research may shed more light on the argumentation of whether managers’ individual style influences the firm’s corporate decision or whether managers endogenously choose the firm due to their individual characteristics that match with the firm’s strategy and vice versa. This study is interesting for firms that aim to find a manager or director who fits well to its own strategy. Although there is a rapidly growing literature on managerial style, there is yet no literature review that analysis research themes and strings on managerial style in finance journals.

Keywords: managerial style; manager characteristics; upper echelon theory, managerial fixed effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G20 G30 G34 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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