Research on CEO Succession
Four ways to choose a CEO: coup d'etat, crown heir, horse race, and comprehensive search.
Friedman, S. D. and Olk, P., 1995.
Human Resource Management, 34: 141-164.
This article presents a conceptual framework that identifies four kinds of CEO succession processes, distinguished according to two key factors: political dynamics and candidate search. The response of organizational stakeholders to CEO successions reflects how the politics and the search are managed, which can affect a new CEO's capacity for exercising effective leadership.
Organizational performance and CEO successor type.
Friedman, S. D. and Olk, P., 1991.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management, Hartford, CT., 260-263.
Research revealing the significance of technical background of successor CEOs (in relation to predecessor background) in orgnizational performance.
Sibling rivalry and intergenerational succession in family firms.
Friedman, S. D., 1991.
Family Business Review, 4 (1): 3-20.
Sibling relationships can turn into rivalries that destroy family firms. In this article, clinical and theoretical research on families, organizations, and conflict resolution are drawn on to develop intervention strategies aimed at helping family firm members both increase awareness about forces that sustain destructive sibling conflicts and find ways of working through them.
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