The Effect Of CEOs' Decision-making Style On Corporate Strategy

The text provide a theory model of style of strategy and decision-making of the top decider in Chinese company, based on the literature review of corporate strategy theory and decision-making .And then, we try to get the data by questionnaires which are designed through Third-person Projective Technique. We do some probing research based on the fronting. For the first time, analyze the styles of strategy and decision-making of the top decider with factor analysis and cluster analysis and compare the two factors. After the analysis of SPSS, we find that the Chinese top deciders of companies can be classified into heroic leaders, democratically centralized leaders and leaders of going with the stream. And the styles of strategy which they choose can be classified into actively exploiting strategy, steadily developing strategy and traditionally keeping strategy. And we have further discovery that through different deciders have their own style of strategy, there is a matching between the styles of decision-making and strategy of the top deciders. We find that 46.2% of the heroic leaders preferred to actively exploiting strategy and 52.2% of the democratically centralized leaders preferred to steadily developing strategy and the leaders of going with the stream proffered to traditionally keeping strategy which is the highest scale. There are some other styles of leaders preferred to choose other styles of strategy.There are six chapters in the text. The first chapter introduces the structure of the text and some purposes.We do some reviews of the literature of strategy and decision-making first and then provide a theory model of style of strategy and decision-making of the top decider in Chinese company.In the third chapter, we introduce the method of the research ,the designing and collecting of the questionnaires of the text.The fourth chapter is the key of the text. We do empirical research by the data coming from the questionnaires with SPSS13.0. And we conclude the styles of strategy and decision-making.We sum up the text in the fifth chapter after discuss. And then we point the shortages of the text and provide some possibilities of forward research.