TY - JOUR
AU1 - Donaldson, Lex
AB - Vol. 22, No. 2 Donaldson Reviews FINKELSTEIN AND HAMBRICK Review: Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations by Sydney Finkelstein and Donald C. Hambrick, 1996 (West Publishing Company, Minneapolis/St Paul) US$24.70, softback, pp. xx + 457. trategic Leadership is a major work of scholarship. Finkelstein and Hambrick present their own considerable number of studies and review many related studies by other researchers. Thus the book synthesises a large and fascinating body of work. Management, especially the upper echelons, is centre stage. Thus this book is a welcome corrective to the fashion in some business school research to ignore managers. The book opens with a discussion of why top executives need to be studied, by arguing that who makes the decisions matters. The authors invoke John Child’s now classic formulation that top executives exercise strategic choice, and then they go on to build their own detailed model of these processes. They begin with cognitive aspects in terms of information filtering, values and personality of top executives. These psychological factors are related back to tenure, age and like demographic variables. Then the group aspects of interactions between executives in top management teams are considered. A contingency aspect is also introduced 
TI - Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations
JF - Australian Journal of Management
DO - 10.1177/031289629702200205
DA - 1997-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/strategic-leadership-top-executives-and-their-effects-on-organizations-8ccJc50aL8
SP - 221
EP - 224
VL - 22
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -