Boards, CEOs, and surviving a financial crisis: Evidence from the internet shakeout

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1025-1045

  Dowell, Glen W S ^a   Shackell, Margaret B ^a   Stuart, Nathan V ^b  

^a SAS Institute Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

board of directors; CEO power; corporate governance; event history analysis; survival

Indexed keywords

BOARD OF DIRECTORS; CEO POWER; CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; EVENT-HISTORY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 80051545804     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.923     Document Type: Article

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