| CEO INTERNATIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE AND FIRMS’ TEMPORAL ORIENTATION: FROM A LENS OF EXECUTIVE JOB DEMANDS |
Received:October 12, 2017 Revised:October 12, 2017 |
Key Words: CEO international experience, temporal orientation, transitional economy, executive job demands, institutional logics |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Cuili Qian* | University of Texas at Dallas | | Gary LiPeng Ge | University of Groningen | | Tianyu Gong | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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Abstract: |
| We address the question of why CEOs with international work experience tend to be long-term oriented in a transitional economy. Building on executive job demands perspective, we argue that the on-going pro-market reform increases the job demands of managers and causes managers to be short-term focused. CEOs with international work experience possess the knowledge that makes them well suited to the pro-market reform. They are more likely to hold a long-term orientation. That tendency can be limited to the extent that the institutional logic of state socialism remains influential. Data on Chinese publicly-listed firms were used to confirm these insights. |
