Top management team turnover, CEO succession type, and strategic change

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 904-910

  Barron, John M ^a   Chulkov, Dmitriy V ^b   Waddell, Glen R ^c,d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Discontinued operations; Executive turnover; Power circulation theory; Strategic change; Top management teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956268789     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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