Executive accountability around the world: Sources of cross-national variation in firm performance-CEO dismissal sensitivity

Strategic Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 78-109

  Crossland, Craig ^a   Chen, Guoli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (Singapore)

Author keywords

CEOs; comparative corporate governance; cross national; executive succession; managerial discretion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872952763     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127012460946     Document Type: Article

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