What is ‘C-Suite’
C-suite is a widely-used slang term used to collectively refer to a corporation’s most important senior executives. C-Suite gets its name because top senior executives’ titles tend to start with the letter C, for chief, as in chief executive officer, chief operating officer and chief information officer.
Explaining ‘C-Suite’
The C-suite is considered the most important and influential group of individuals at a company. Being a member of this group comes with high-stakes decision making, a more demanding workload and high compensation. As “chief” titles proliferate, however, job-title inflation may decrease the prestige associated with being a member of the C-suite.
Further Reading
- Boiling the frog slowly: The immersion of C-suite financial executives into fraud – link.springer.com [PDF]
- Tomorrow's C-Suite Agenda – www.oxfordhandbooks.com [PDF]
- Communications officers and the C-suite: A study of Financial Times Global 500 companies – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- Does Accounting and Financial Expertise in the C-Suite Aid or Mitigate Earnings Management? – papers.ssrn.com [PDF]
- Does Gender in the C-Suite Really Matter? – journals.sagepub.com [PDF]
- From the Ivy tower to the C-suite: garbage can processes and corporate strategic decision making – www.emerald.com [PDF]
- The bottom line: corporate performance and gender diversity in the c-suite (2004-2008) – papers.ssrn.com [PDF]
- Who lives in the C-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management – pubsonline.informs.org [PDF]
