Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Abstract
Much has been written on the topic of leadership development however little on the development of top executives, and virtually nothing on the most efficient ways of developing executives. With succession pipelines to executive jobs weak across S&P 500 firms, executive succession weakness poses a real financial, continuity and governance risk to systems globally. To address this phenomenological gap, the authors conducted a qualitative inquiry involving semi-structured interviews with managers in a single S&P 50 global firm that operates across three industries. By probing into the "lived worlds" of these executive successors and high performing non-successors, new insight has been gained into the organizational factors that accelerate and impede executive readiness.
Keywords
executive succession, organizational change, Weatherhead School of Management, executive development, succession management, corporate governance, business continuity, executive effectiveness, global leadership, leadership development
Rights
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Department/Center
Design & Innovation
Recommended Citation
Cameron, Carolynn, "Bridging Executive Succession Gaps: Organizational Factors that Most Accelerate Executive Readiness" (2015). Student Scholarship. 112.
https://commons.case.edu/studentworks/112