Understanding why some firms survive while others fail is a central question of strategic
management research. Indeed, many consider survival the quintessential indicator of firm …

This article reviews leader succession research from 1994 to 2004. We begin with a brief
summary of Kesner and Sebora's [Kesner, IF, & Sebora, TC (1994). Executive succession …

Institutional theory is a prominent perspective in contemporary organizational research. It
encompasses a large, diverse body of theoretical and empirical work connected by a …

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION THEORY Management and Organization Theory
offers a summary and analysis of the 40 most popular, researched, and applied …

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 …

We use meta-analytical techniques to address three central debates in institutional theory: Is
organizational behavior the product of social structure or organizational agency? Does …

There has been a growing debate about the role of history in management research with
several authors making suggestions on how to bring the two (back) together and others …

We extend the “institutional voids” perspective on business groups by examining the value‐
adding potential of two of the characteristic features of business groups: their diverse …

Following from research on firms' upper echelons, this article examines the previously
unstudied issue of how technological dynamism moderates the relationship between a …

The article systematically explores exogenous shocks in leadership and management
research. It introduces a special issue of The Leadership Quarterly emphasizing how …