Executive job demands: New insights for explaining strategic decisions and leader behaviors

Donald C. Hambrick; Sydney Finkelstein; Ann C. Mooney

doi:10.5465/AMR.2005.17293355

Executive job demands: New insights for explaining strategic decisions and leader behaviors

Donald C. Hambrick
, Sydney Finkelstein
, Ann C. Mooney

Pennsylvania State University
Dartmouth College

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	472-491
Number of pages	20
Journal	Academy of Management Review
Volume	30
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2005.17293355
State	Published - Jul 2005

Keywords

Executive compensation
Including agency theory
Numerous fronts
Upper echelons

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