CEO elitist association: Toward a new understanding of an executive behavioral pattern

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 316-328

  Chen, Guoli ^a   Treviño, Linda Klebe ^b   Hambrick, Donald C ^b  

^a INSEAD   (Singapore)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elitist association; Executive behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349145242     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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