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A Typology of Executive Career Specialization

Michael C. White

Department of Management and Marketing, Louisiana Tech University, P.O. Box 10318, Ruston, Louisiana 71272-0046.

Mark Smith

University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Tim Barnettl

Department of Management and Marketing, Louisiana Tech University, P.O. Box 10318, Ruston, Louisiana 71272-0046.

This paper presents a career specialization typology that is specifically designed to assess a CEO's career specialization, but more generally can be used to assess other top executives' career specialization as well. The typology is based on the results of a study involving 544 chief executive officers of Fortune 1000 companies. The typology integrates the functional and institutional specializations of the executives into a single typology of career specialization and empirically groups the executives into one of three career "types" based on their functional and institutional specializations.

Key Words: career specialization • executives' careers • strategy-manager coalignment • functional specialization • institutional specialization

Human Relations, Vol. 47, No. 5, 473-486 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/001872679404700501
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