CEO Dismissal: The role of investment analysts

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1161-1182

  Wiersema, Margarethe F ^a   Zhang, Yan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CEO dismissal; CEO succession; certification; investment analysts

Indexed keywords

CEO DISMISSAL; CEO SUCCESSION; CERTIFICATION; FIRM PERFORMANCE; PANEL DATA;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 80052594369     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.932     Document Type: Article

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