Who matters more? The impact of functional background and top executive mobility on firm survival
研究高管职能角色对企业生存的影响，发现失去关注内部流程的高管比失去关注外部关系的高管更致命，且同时离职的高管团队职能多样性越高，企业受损越严重。
Do some top executives matter more than others? Integrating insights from upper echelons and executive mobility research, we suggest that the functional roles performed by top executives shape their value to the firm. We examine the effects of interfirm executive mobility on firm survival for New York City advertising firms from 1924 to 1996. We find that, while losing any top executive is damaging, the loss of a top executive whose functional role focuses on internal firm processes is more detrimental to firm survival than losing a top executive whose functional role focuses on managing external exchange relationships. Additionally, in situations when multiple executives leave simultaneously, firms are more negatively affected when the group departing is functionally heterogeneous . Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.