Steering the Intangible Wheel: Chief Executive Officer Effect on Corporate Cultural Change

The authors thank Senior Editor Abhinav Gupta and the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback during the review process. The authors are grateful for the comments of Cynthia E. Devers, Yijia Ding, Charles Galunic, Daniel Gamache, Donald C. Hambrick, Quy Huy, Dong Liu, Arianna Marchetti, Philipp Meyer-Doyle, Amy Y. Ou, Wei Shi, Ithai Stern, and Phebo D. Wibbens as well as participants at the Consortium for Research in Strategy Conference, the Transatlantic Doctoral Conference, the Chinese Management Scholars Community Research Consortium, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, the Berkeley Culture Conference, the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Forum, and the Academy of Management annual meeting. The authors also thank Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer Srivastava for their help in comparing different measures; Tim Quigley for sharing his codes on variance decomposition; and Sterling Huang for his help in identifying chief executive officer death events. All errors are the authors’ own.