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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs by Rakesh Khurana (Hardcover, 2002)
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Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determine the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This text takes us into the often secretive world of the CEO selection process. Rakesh Khurana's findings are surprising and disturbing. In recent years, he shows, corporations have increasingly sought CEOs who are above all else charismatic, whose fame and force of personality impress analysts and the business media, but whose experience and abilities are not necessarily right for companies' specific needs. The labour market for CEOs, Khurana concludes, is far less rational than we might think. Khurana's findings are based on a study of the hiring and firing of CEOs at over 850 of America's largest companies and on extensive interviews with CEOs, corporate board members and consultants at executive search firms. The book explains the basic mechanics of the selection process and how hiring priorities have changed with the rise of shareholder activism. Khurana argues that the markeProduct Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-139780691074375
eBay Product ID (ePID)91349725
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameSearching for a Corporate Savior: the Irrational Quest for Charismatic Ceos
LanguageEnglish
SubjectManagement, Business
Publication Year2002
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaOrganizational Sociology
AuthorRakesh Khurana
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight624 g
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorRakesh Khurana
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