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Handing over the reins: should the CEO's successor be an insider or an outsider?

This paper is based on an extract from an extensive study of high performance companies around the world, published in July 1997 under the title The Winning Streak, Mark II. The study focused on 24 companies from nine countries, where interviews were carried out with top management and beyond; and a...

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Published in:Corporate governance : an international review 1998-04, Vol.6 (2), p.78-85
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