When CEOs step up to fail

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Conger, Jay A ^a   Nadler, David A ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Mercer Delta Consulting Llc   (United States)

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