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 premise is that in order to understand why organizations do the things they do, or perform the way they do, we need to deeply comprehend the people at the top-- their experiences, abilities, values, social connections, aspirations, and other human features. The actions--or inactions--of a relatively small number of key people at the apex of an organization can dramatically affect organizational outcomes. The scope of strategic leadership includes individual executives, especially chief executive officers (CEOs), groups of executives (top management teams, or TMTs); and governing bodies (particularly boards of directors). Accordingly, the book addresses an array of topics regarding CEOs (e.g., values, personality, motives, demography, succession, and compensation); TMTs (including composition, processes, and dynamics); and boards of directors (why boards look and behave the way they do, and the consequences of board profiles and behaviors). Strategic Leadership synthesizes what is known about strategic leadership and indicates new research directions. The book is meant primarily for scholars who strive to assess and understand the phenomena of strategic leadership. It offers a considerable foundation on which professionals involved in executive search, compensation, appraisal and staffing, as well as board members who evaluate executive performance and potential, might build their tools and perspectives.

Strategic Leadership: Theory and Research on Executives, Top Management Teams, and Boards (Strategic Management)

Business & Money

Finkelstein, Sydney

Cannella, Bert

Hambrick, Donald C.

Economics

Oxford University Press

A thorough, in-depth treatment of strategic leadership that highlights knowledge creation and practical insight. The authors have been at the forefront of research and writing in this field; this book represents a compilation and creative extension of their own and others research on top executives. This brief one-color text is appropriate for MBA strategy courses or as a supplement to various upper-division managerial texts. Strategic Leadership is part of the Wests Strategic Management Series edited by Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, and Robert E. Hoskisson, authors of Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, 2nd.

Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations (West's Strategic Management Series)

Management & Leadership

South-Western College Pub.

A collection of autobiographical essays by laureates from different management disciplines, which focus on the factors and forces that influenced their professional and personal development. Each essay is accompanied by a photograph and complete bibliography of each individual's work.

Management Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (6)

Kochan, Thomas A.

Hitt, Michael A.

Child, John

Graen, George B.

Hunt, James G.

Mowday, Richard T.

Oldham, Greg R.

Emerald Group Pub Ltd

First published in 2002. This volume compiles the autobiographies of the management discipline's most distinguished laureates. Prior to this publication, the available management literature provided little insight into the personal and intellectual lives - the frustrations as well as the triumphs - of the individuals in the management discipline. Although such understanding could be conveyed in many forms, perhaps the most intimate and fascinating of these for gaining behind-the-scenes insights is the autobiography. Thus, the autobiographies in this volume, as in the five companion volumes, offer the reader not only a glimpse of the subjective determinants and personal experiences of the management discipline's most distinguished laureates, but also a deeper understanding of what management is and what it is becoming. The various accounts reflect a diversity of approaches, interests, and experiences.

Management Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 6) (Routledge Library Editions: Management)

Routledge

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