The Faultlines of Top Management Team and Enterprise Innovation Capability: 
Evidence from Chinese GEM Companies

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Abstract: This paper introduces the theory of faultlines of top management team(TMT), and uses the GEM companies as research samples to explore the effects of faultlines of TMT based on the background of finance on enterprise innovation ability. The results show that: the faultlines of TMT based on the background of finance and non-finance have negative effect on enterprise innovation ability, CEO power has inhibitory role in the negative influence of faultlines of TMT based on the background of finance on enterprise innovation and ownership concentration has promoting role in the negative influence of the faultlines of TMT based on the background of finance on enterprise. The above conclusions show that the faultlines of TMT based on the background of finance is an important factor influencing enterprise innovation ability.

Key words: the faultlines of top management team, enterprise innovation, CEO power, ownership concentration

SONG Di1, YANG Chao2,3. The Faultlines of Top Management Team and Enterprise Innovation Capability: Evidence from Chinese GEM Companies[J]. 商业研究.

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