To more completely understand the basis for firm performance differences, we need greater clarity on the drivers of differentiation in managerial strategic decision-making, as well as on the impact these decisions have on the composition and configuration of the firm's resource portfolio. In...

Scholars studying upper echelons have found that executive succession can serve as an important adaptation mechanism. The bulk of these findings, however, derive from market-based governance settings, which raises an issue of contextual robustness. This study examines this issue by investigating...

While poor firm performance has been shown to be an important predictor of CEO dismissal, financial performance alone cannot explain the increased incidence of CEO dismissal. The complex and ambiguous relationship between poor firm performance and CEO dismissal is due in part to the uncertainty...

This authoritative title, co-edited by an internationally recognised expert on corporate strategy, includes seminal articles on the theory underlying corporate strategy, the empirical evidence linking corporate strategy to firm performance and the influence of the firm's upper echelon on...