Governance and CEO turnover: Do something or do the right thing?

Management Science

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 319-337

  Fisman, Raymond J ^a   Khurana, Rakesh ^b   Rhodes Kropf, Matthew ^b   Yim, Soojin ^c  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CEO turnover; Corporate finance; Decision making; Entrenched CEOs; Entrenchment; Governance; Management; Organizational studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894320431     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2013.1759     Document Type: Article

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