Research notes and commentaries once an outsider, always an outsider? CEO origin, strategic change, and firm performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 334-346

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Rajagopalan, Nandini ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CEO origin; CEO tenure; Strategic change; Upper echelon

Indexed keywords

FIRM PERFORMANCE; LEVEL OF CHANGE; LONGITUDINAL DATA; POSITIVE EFFECTS; STRATEGIC CHANGES; U-SHAPED;

EID: 77449149672     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.812     Document Type: Article

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