Discussion

Abstract

This thesis represents a first step towards a theory-based, empirically grounded understanding of top executives' work relationship and work-family balance. It offers a conceptualization and operationalization of top executives' work relationship and work-family balance by distinguishing several major facets and constructs constituting these phenomena. To our knowledge, in the existing literature the underlying constructs have not yet been explored holistically and integrated in one investigation. Overall, our findings provide strong support for the existence of different top executives' work relationship and work-family balance types and the supposed association of these configurations with related variables. These findings appear to have important content-related implications for management research.