Cultivating a resilient top management team: The importance of relational connections and strategic decision comprehensiveness

Safety Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 148-159

  Carmeli, Abraham ^a   Friedman, Yair ^a   Tishler, Asher ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Resilience; Strategic decision comprehensiveness; Top management teams

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; CONNECTIVITY; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; RESILIENCE; STRATEGIC DECISIONS; TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS; TWO-STREAM;

RESEARCH;

CULTIVATION;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MANAGEMENT STYLE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 84865433761     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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