“…According to the upper echelon theory (UET), how enterprises operate critically depends on TMs, whose decisions are influenced by their psychological traits (Arena et al, 2018;Liao & Long, 2018;Pryor et al, 2019;Shahab et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2019). Furthermore, an individual's psychological traits are majorly shaped by their prior experiences (Allen et al, 2013;Cho et al, 2019;Marchini et al, 2022), such as birth (Ren et al, 2021), education (Hörisch et al, 2017;Cho et al, 2019), and employment (Wang et al, 2022).…”