New CEOs pursue their own self-interests by sacrificing stakeholder value

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 301-308

  Harrison, Jeffrey S ^a   Fiet, James O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chief executive officer; Executive succession; Pension funding; Research and development; Self interested behavior; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033545717     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005961518518     Document Type: Article

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