Sydney Finkelstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sydney Finkelstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sydney |
| FAMILY NAME | Finkelstein |
| SIGNATURE | FINKELSTEIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4484-3803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why smart executives fail
In a series of inductive case histories of leadership and strategy, we document the problem of how executives often learn the wrong lessons from history. The costs associated with such misdirected learning are significant, and often tally in the hundreds of millions to billions in losses. These mistakes are seldom due to managerial incompetence or random events, but rather are driven by common patterns of managerial behaviour. The case histories …
Executive Job Demands
Executive jobs vary widely in the difficulty they pose for their incumbents, yet research on top executives and strategic decision making has largely ignored this reality. We build on work in industrial/organizational psychology to develop the construct of executive job demands; discuss its major determinants; propose some of its key implications for strategic choices and leadership behaviors; and propose the usefulness of this construct in advan…
Top-Management-Team Tenure and Organizational Outcomes
Sydney Finkelstein, Donald C. Hambrick, Top-Management-Team Tenure and Organizational Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Managerial Discretion, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 484-503
Composer and Nation; The Folk Heritage of Music
Why smart executives fail
In a series of inductive case histories of leadership and strategy, we document the problem of how executives often learn the wrong lessons from history. The costs associated with such misdirected learning are significant, and often tally in the hundreds of millions to billions in losses. These mistakes are seldom due to managerial incompetence or random events, but rather are driven by common patterns of managerial behaviour. The case histories …
Composer and Nation; The Folk Heritage of Music
Composer and Nation; The Folk Heritage of Music
Top-Management-Team Tenure and Organizational Outcomes
Sydney Finkelstein, Donald C. Hambrick, Top-Management-Team Tenure and Organizational Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Managerial Discretion, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 484-503
Executive Job Demands
Executive jobs vary widely in the difficulty they pose for their incumbents, yet research on top executives and strategic decision making has largely ignored this reality. We build on work in industrial/organizational psychology to develop the construct of executive job demands; discuss its major determinants; propose some of its key implications for strategic choices and leadership behaviors; and propose the usefulness of this construct in advan…
Why smart executives fail
In a series of inductive case histories of leadership and strategy, we document the problem of how executives often learn the wrong lessons from history. The costs associated with such misdirected learning are significant, and often tally in the hundreds of millions to billions in losses. These mistakes are seldom due to managerial incompetence or random events, but rather are driven by common patterns of managerial behaviour. The case histories …
Business (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Management (2 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)