Executive leadership changes are critical turning points for organizations. Over the past five
decades, management scholars have generated many insights into the predictors …

Organizational researchers have long recognized the important role that top managers play
within entrepreneurial firms (Ireland, Hitt and Sirmon 2003). Utilizing Covin and Slevin's …

Together, Penrosean and Barnean resource-based logic make up the dominant theoretical
approach to understanding firm growth. While extant literature focuses on a common lineage …

In this paper, we seek to answer two questions:(1) what does boardroom diversity stand for
in the strategic management literature? And,(2) is there a significant relationship between …

This book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic
leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The basic …

Although the pyramid headed by an all-powerful individual has been a symbol of
organizations, such omnipotence is possible only in simple situations where perfected …

Over the past fifteen years, a number of studies have examined the determinants of firm R&D
spending. These studies, however, almost invariably focus on the role of firm or external …

We exploit a unique data set to study individual characteristics of CEO candidates for
companies involved in buyout and venture capital transactions and relate these …

This book is suitable for Undergraduates and Postgraduates/MBA courses in International
Marketing, Export Marketing and International Trade. This book comprehensively covers …

Using upper echelons theory and the concept of “faultlines,” we argue that heterogeneity on
a board of directors influences discussion of entrepreneurial issues in board meetings. We …