New CEOs and corporate strategic refocusing: How experience as heir apparent influences the use of power

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Bigley, Gregory A ^a   Wiersema, Margarethe F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0038784077     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3094914     Document Type: Review

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