Datta et al. 1998 (SMJ)
Industry characteristics
- Capital intensity
- Industry growth rate
- Product differentiation
Control variables in CEO research
- Industry concentration
- Firm size
- Relative firm performance (past performance)
- Relative firm capital intensity
- Relative firm advertising intensity
- Relative firm sales growth rate
- Board power
CEO's dominant functional experience
- Throughput
- Production and operations
- process R&D
- accounting
- Nonthroughput
