When Do Outsider CEOs Generate Strategic Change? The Enabling Role of Corporate Stability

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1267-1294

  Karaevli, Ayse ^a   Zajac, Edward J ^b  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CEO successions; Outsider CEOs; Strategic change; Strategic leadership; Successor origin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885470780     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12046     Document Type: Article

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