Top Executive Locus of Control and Its Relationship to Strategy-Making, Structure, and Environment

In a Canadian study the locus of control of top executives was found to bear a direct and significant relationship to the nature of corporate strategy but an indirect relationship to environment and to structure. More internal chief executives tended to pursue more product-market innovation, underta...

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Veröffentlicht in:Academy of Management journal 1982-06, Vol.25 (2), p.237-253
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Chief executive officers
Corporate
Correlation analysis
Effects
Executives
Locus of control
Organization theory
Organizational
Organizational behavior
Personality
Personality psychology
Product innovation
Product lines
Questionnaires
Risk taking
Strategy
Structure
Studies
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