• DOI:10.1111/PEPS.12140
Corpus ID: 146548709

Do CEOs Matter to Firm Strategic Actions and Firm Performance? A Meta-Analytic Investigation Based on Upper Echelons Theory

@article{Wang2015DoCM,
  title={Do CEOs Matter to Firm Strategic Actions and Firm Performance? A Meta-Analytic Investigation Based on Upper Echelons Theory},
  author={Gang Wang and R. M. Holmes and In-Sue Oh and Weichun Zhu},
  journal={Development of Innovation eJournal},
  year={2015}
}

• Gang Wang, R. M. Holmes, +1 author Weichun Zhu
• Published 2015
• Psychology
• Development of Innovation eJournal

What roles do CEOs play in firm performance? To address this question, the management field has accumulated a substantial amount of research over the past three decades built on upper echelons theory (UET), which posits that CEO characteristics manifest in firm strategic actions and, in this way, future firm performance. Hence, there is a need to systematically amass and take stock of prior empirical findings for UET testing and development. We use meta-analytic techniques to synthesize prior… Expand