Abstract
Abstract and Key Results This study examines the MNC top-management-team’s international attribute profile, its relationship with its individual team member international attributes and the joint effect these two levels of international attributes have on the individual’s position in the TMT advice network on international business advice. In particular, this study examines how diversity in the international experience of each manager individually and in the context of the international experience of the entire team influences a manager’s centrality in providing international business advice to the team. A hierarchical data structure design allows the examination of cross-level effects, given that a TMT member’s network centrality may be a function of both individual level and group level influences. Strong support was found for considering centrality a function of both individual and group level attributes with each level accounting for approximately half of the variability in centrality. Mechanisms at one level of analysis may be different, or have different effects, than mechanisms at another level of analysis.
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