The use of variance decomposition in the investigation of CEO effects: How large must the CEO effect be to rule out chance?

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1839-1852

  Fitza, Markus A ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CEO effect; CEOs; chance; sources of performance heterogeneity; variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES;

CEO EFFECT; CEOS; CHANCE; PERFORMANCE EFFECT; VARIANCE DECOMPOSITION;

SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

EID: 84911985358     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2192     Document Type: Article

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