Background
Integrating the attention-based view of the firm with social interaction reasoning in top management teams, our study proposes a theoretical model of attentional alignment. We test our model in the context of CEO-CFO attentional alignment and strategic change.
Approach
We analyze a longitudinal sample for the time period 2010 to 2018 from the S&P 500. Based on over 80 million spoken words of CEOs and CFOs that we extract from quarterly earnings calls transcripts, we analyze 1,692 firm-year observations of attentional alignment from 308 firms for the relationship with strategic change.
Project publications and presentations
Ademi, E. & Tumasjan, A. (2024). Attentional Alignment: The CEO-CFO Interface and Strategic Change. Accepted for presentation at the 44th Strategic Management Society Conference, Istanbul, Türkiye. Nominated for the 2024 SMS PhD Paper Prize
Ademi, E. & Tumasjan, A. (2024). Attentional Alignment: The CEO-CFO Interface and Strategic Change. Presented at the 13th EIASM Workshop on Top Management Teams and Business Strategy, Passau, Germany
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