A Typology of Executive Career Specialization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9891934 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael C White (Louisiana Tech University, corresponding author), Mark Smith (0000-0002-1048-7786, University of Southwestern Louisiana.), Mark W Smith (0000-0002-4582-9088, Southwestern University), Tim Barnett (Louisiana Tech University) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 473-486 |
| Publication date | 1994-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001872679404700501 |
| OpenAlex | W2162807996 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
This paper presents a career specialization typology that is specifically designed to assess a CEO's career specialization, but more generally can be used to assess other top executives' career specialization as well. The typology is based on the results of a study involving 544 chief executive officers of Fortune 1000 companies. The typology integrates the functional and institutional specializations of the executives into a single typology of career specialization and empirically groups the executives into one of three career "types" based on their functional and institutional specializations
Career development · Economics · Functional specialization · Management · Sociology · Typology · Corporate Finance and Governance · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |