What does the new boss think?. How new leaders' cognitive communities and recent "top-job" success affect organizational change and performance

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 799-813

  Ndofor, Hermann Achidi ^a   Priem, Richard L ^b   Rathburn, Jude A ^b   Dhir, Ashwani K ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Executive succession; National Football League (NFL); Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 69349096170     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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