WHEN THE KNOWN DEVIL IS BETTER THAN AN UNKNOWN GOD: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF RELAY CEO SUCCESSIONS.

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Taking an organizational learning and adaptation perspective, we compared “relay” CEO successions with nonrelay inside successions and outside successions. Data on 204 CEO successions between 1993 ...

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