The Impact of Top Management Team Diversity on the Appointment of Chief Digitalization Officers in German Firms
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://pjms.zim.pcz.pl/article/555530/en" target="_blank" >https://pjms.zim.pcz.pl/article/555530/en</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17512/pjms.2025.32.2.1" target="_blank" >10.17512/pjms.2025.32.2.1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Impact of Top Management Team Diversity on the Appointment of Chief Digitalization Officers in German Firms
Original language description
This study provides empirical evidence on the role of top management team (TMT) diversity in shaping executive leadership and driving digital transformation within organizations. By focusing on the German context, it enriches the discourse on diversity, executive appointments, and performance in the digital era, offering valuable insights for both scholars and practitioners. The aim of the study is to examine how diversity within TMTs influences the appointment of Chief Digitalization Officers (CDOs) in German companies navigating the challenges of digitalization. Using a quantitative research design, the analysis draws on a comprehensive dataset of German firms and measures TMT diversity across gender, ethnicity, and educational background. The research investigates how these diversity dimensions affect the likelihood of CDO appointments and assesses the subsequent implications for firms’ technological advancement. The results reveal a strong positive correlation between TMT diversity and the appointment of CDOs. Firms with more diverse executive teams are significantly more likely to establish digital leadership roles, which in turn is associated with higher levels of technological innovation and digital transformation.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Polish Journal of Management Studies
ISSN
2081-7452
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Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
237-252
UT code for WoS article
001701117600015
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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