在新興市場中集團是普遍存在的組織型態，集團企業成長快速且擁有許多子公司，公司據點也散布在台灣各個地方，甚至跨足至海外國家，每家子公司經營的模式與業務性質也不盡相同，這時集團內部的管理資源就相當重要，而管理資源意味著掌握集團未來發展的一群人，而這群人正是所謂的高階管理團隊。
　　高階管理團隊的概念是出自Hambrick and Mason(1984)提出「高層理論Upper Echelons theory」，高階管理團隊存在的目的是負責策略的制定和執行，也就是決定整個企業發展的方向，並指出企業績效的好壞就是高階管理團隊決策的反射，顯示出高階管理團隊在組織裡的重要性，此後就有許多學者針對高階管理團隊進行相關研究。
　　過去的研究大多著重在高階管理團隊和單一企業之間的分析，而本研究把分析單位聚焦在集團企業，必須仔細思考到底哪些成員，才是真正對集團企業有重大影響和決策能力的人。本研究利用資料庫和年報資料，蒐集高階管理團隊的相關背景資料，建立客觀的核心人物篩選準則，再試圖找出集團的核心人物，並且分析核心人物的組成特徵和集團之間是否存在某些關係。

　　In emerging market, conglomerate is a common form of organization. It grows fast and has many subsidiary companies which located in Taiwan and even overseas. Each subsidiary company has different operating model and business nature, so it is critical for conglomerate to manage its resources. This indicates people who master the conglomerate’s future development and they are so called the top management team.
　　The concept of top management team comes from the Upper Echelons theory of Hambrick and Mason(1984). The purpose of top management team is to make and execute strategies which will determine the enterprise’s direction of development. The theory also point out that the achievements of enterprise are the reflection of top management team’s decision. The finding shows that the importance of top management team in an organization and attracts more scholars to do research aimed at top management team.
　　Most of the past researches focus on the analysis between top management team and single enterprise. The current research emphasize conglomerate and illustrate who are the core members that have decision making ability and can actually make great impact to the enterprise. This research uses database and annual report data to gather relevant background information of top management team. First we build an objective criteria and then try to find out the conglomerate’s key persons and analyze whether there are some relationships between the composing characteristics of core members and conglomerate or not.

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