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Getting by with the advice of their friends: CEOs' advice networks and firms' strategic responses to poor performance.
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Administrative Science Quarterly
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March 1, 2003
- Author:
- McDonald, Michael L.; Westphal, James D.
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This paper theorizes that relatively poor firm performance can prompt chief executive officers (CEOs) to seek more advice from executives of other firms who are their friends or similar to them and less advice from acquaintances or dissimilar others and suggests how and why this pattern of advice seeking could reduce firms' propensity to change corporate strategy in response to poor performance. We test our hypotheses with large-sample survey data on the identities of CEOs' advice contacts and archival data on firm performance and corporate strategy. The results confirm our hypotheses and show that executives' social network ties can influence firms' responses to economic adversity, in ...
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