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Experience as a Double-Edged Sword: The Relationship Between Prior Management Experience and Job Performance (2022)
Journal Article
Desai, M. N. (2023). Experience as a Double-Edged Sword: The Relationship Between Prior Management Experience and Job Performance. British Journal of Management, 34(2), 727-745. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12622

The inter-firm mobility of managers is a common feature in modern-day employment, yet the understanding of the relationship between prior management experience and performance remains ambiguous in the literature. The received wisdom suggests that pri... Read More about Experience as a Double-Edged Sword: The Relationship Between Prior Management Experience and Job Performance.

Information asymmetries in the hiring process and the risk of new leader dismissal: insights from English premier league soccer organizations (2017)
Journal Article
Desai, M. N., Lockett, A., & Paton, D. (2018). Information asymmetries in the hiring process and the risk of new leader dismissal: insights from English premier league soccer organizations. British Journal of Management, 29(1), 26-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12210

Why are some new leaders dismissed quicker than others? Adopting agency theory logic we examine how different succession contexts shape boards’ information asymmetries about a potential candidate’s competencies in the hiring process, which influences... Read More about Information asymmetries in the hiring process and the risk of new leader dismissal: insights from English premier league soccer organizations.

The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance (2015)
Journal Article
Desai, M. N., Lockett, A., & Paton, D. (2016). The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance. Human Resource Management, 55(6), 967-984. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21700

In this article we strive to reconcile equivocal findings about the effects of top leader succession and prior leadership experience on postsuccession organizational performance. In doing so, we draw on insights from theories of human capital, learni... Read More about The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance.