Executive Migration and Institutional Change

We examine how the immigration of leaders possessing different skills, understandings, assumptions, and values can promote change within institutionalized organizations and fields. Our results indicate that American liberal arts colleges were more likely to adopt controversial professional programs...

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Published in:Academy of Management journal 2002-02, Vol.45 (1), p.120-143
Main Authors: Kraatz, Matthew S., Moore, James H.
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Appointments & personnel changes
Cognitive models
College presidents
Colleges
Colleges & universities
Curricula
Educational institutions
Elites
Executives
Higher education
Hiring
Human migration
Institutional change
Institutions
Leaders
Learning
Legitimacy
Liberal arts education
Modeling
Occupational mobility
Organizational change
Special Research Forum on Institutional Theory and Institutional Change
Studies
U.S.A
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Cognitive models
College presidents
Colleges
Colleges & universities
Curricula
Educational institutions
Elites
Executives
Higher education
Hiring
Human migration
Institutional change
Institutions
Leaders
Learning
Legitimacy
Liberal arts education
Modeling
Occupational mobility
Organizational change
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Studies
U.S.A
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