Journal article
Toward a Configurational Perspective on the CEO: A Review and Synthesis of the Management Literature
Journal of management, Vol.42(1), pp.234-268
01/01/2016
DOI: 10.1177/0149206315618448
Abstract
Management literature offers substantial insight about many aspects of CEO-related phenomena. Whether it involves aspects of the position of CEO, personal characteristics of the CEO, or the environment in which the CEO operates, research about the CEO has yielded a number of important findings. Despite the proliferation of research regarding the CEO, we find that the literature as a whole is fragmented. By this, we mean that the CEO is often used as a context to test discrete theories. In this article, we contend that the fragmentation in the literature is a result of scholarship existing within theoretical fault lines and rarely venturing to incorporate theories beyond a given domain. This fragmentation results in inconsistent and inconclusive findings in the CEO-related literature. We propose an integrative framework, which we call the configurational perspective on the CEO, to help resolve this fragmentation problem. The configurational perspective on the CEO highlights three separate CEO-related research domains: the position, the person, and the environment. In taking stock of research in each of these domains, we address how they can be integrated in different configurations to help reduce the fragmented nature of the literature.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Toward a Configurational Perspective on the CEO: A Review and Synthesis of the Management Literature
- Creators
- John R. Busenbark - Arizona State UniversityRyan Krause - Texas Christian UniversitySteven Boivie - Mitchell InstituteScott D. Graffin - University of Georgia
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of management, Vol.42(1), pp.234-268
- DOI
- 10.1177/0149206315618448
- ISSN
- 0149-2063
- eISSN
- 1557-1211
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 35
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984936820802771
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