Looking for Their Dick Vermeil: How Prior Performance Influences the Selection Decision Academic Article

abstract

• When replacing an executive, an organization is faced with the choice of either promoting someone internally or hiring an outsider. Prior research in the private sector supports the contention that poor performing organizations will be adaptive and seek an outsider in hopes of initiating change that will improve performance. Do public organizations behave similarly? We address this question in the context of public education and examine the superintendent hiring decisions in 491 school districts. We find that school boards make sophisticated assessments of the district's performance and these assessments influence their selection decisions. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008.

authors

• Meier, Kenneth

published proceedings

• Public Organization Review

author list (cited authors)

• Hamidullah, M. F., Wilkins, V. M., & Meier, K. J.

citation count

• 13

complete list of authors

• Hamidullah, Madinah F||Wilkins, Vicky M||Meier, Kenneth J

publication date

• March 2009

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Public Organization Review: a Global Journal  Journal

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services
• 3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour
• 4 Quality Education
• 44 Human Society
• 4407 Policy And Administration
• Clinical Research

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s11115-008-0062-7

start page

• 1

end page

• 14

volume

• 9

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1007%2Fs11115-008-0062-7

user-defined tag

• 4 Quality Education