CEO duality and firm performance: What's the fuss?

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-53

  Baliga, B Ram ^a   Moyer, R Charles ^a   Rao, Ramesh S ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Duality; Governance; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001946504     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(199601)17:1<41::aid-smj784>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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