Chief Strategy Officers in Top Management Teams

We draw upon contingency theory and attempt to study the antecedents and performance consequences of CSO presence in this research project. The overall purpose of the research project is to develop and rigorously test a comprehensive model of CSO presence that integrates prior research and includes various antecedents (environmental, strategic, and structural) and performance effects of CSO presence. To analyze the research questions, we plan to obtain data for a large-scale sample of S&P500 firms from archival sources such as annual reports and financial databases. In addition, we will conduct interviews with CSOs for a discussion of the findings.