TY - JOUR
T1 - Executive job demands
T2 - New insights for explaining strategic decisions and leader behaviors
AU - Hambrick, Donald C.
AU - Finkelstein, Sydney
AU - Mooney, Ann C.
PY - 2005/7
Y1 - 2005/7
N2 - Executive jobs vary widely in the difficulty they pose for their incumbents, yet research on top executives and strategic decision making has largely ignored this reality. We build on work in industrial/organizational psychology to develop the construct of executive job demands; discuss its major determinants; propose some of its key implications for strategic choices and leadership behaviors; and propose the usefulness of this construct in advancing research on.
AB - Executive jobs vary widely in the difficulty they pose for their incumbents, yet research on top executives and strategic decision making has largely ignored this reality. We build on work in industrial/organizational psychology to develop the construct of executive job demands; discuss its major determinants; propose some of its key implications for strategic choices and leadership behaviors; and propose the usefulness of this construct in advancing research on.
KW - Executive compensation
KW - Including agency theory
KW - Numerous fronts
KW - Upper echelons
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U2 - 10.5465/AMR.2005.17293355
DO - 10.5465/AMR.2005.17293355
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:22544461028
SN - 0363-7425
VL - 30
SP - 472
EP - 491
JO - Academy of Management Review
JF - Academy of Management Review
IS - 3
ER -