CEO Career Variety: Effects on Firm-Level Strategic and Social Novelty

Volume: 57, Issue: 3, Pages: 652 - 674
Published: Jun 1, 2014
Abstract
We introduce the concept of “CEO career variety”—defined as the array of distinct professional and institutional experiences an executive has had prior to becoming CEO. Using a longitudinal sample of Fortune 250 CEOs, we hypothesize, and find strong evidence for the assertion, that CEO career variety is positively associated with firm-level strategic novelty—manifested in strategic dynamism (period-on-period change) and strategic distinctiveness...
Paper Details
Title
CEO Career Variety: Effects on Firm-Level Strategic and Social Novelty
Published Date
Jun 1, 2014
Volume
57
Issue
3
Pages
652 - 674
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