Verify against Wangrow, Schepker & Barker (2022) full text: is the succession→strategic-change effect mediated by whether the new CEO replaces the top management team?

claim-executive-succession-restructuring-runs-through-actor-action rests partly on a mediation finding taken at abstract-level access only: Wangrow, Schepker & Barker (2022, Journal of General Management) that the succession→strategic-change link runs through whether the new CEO also replaces the top management team, not through turnover alone. The abstract confirms the framing — "While mandates for strategic change may accompany the selection of new Chief Executive Officer (CEOs), the broader set of leadership changes necessary for strategic change remains unclear" — but the specific mediation result is [unverified-mechanism — abstract only].

Why it matters

This mediation is the load-bearing refinement of the whole "does a change of actor trigger restructuring" thread (question-new-session-onset-as-rewiring-trigger): if the effect requires the new actor to act (replace the team), the vault's analogue is that a fresh session only rewires if told to, not by the bare fact of being fresh. A note resting on an unread result should not go evergreen until the result is confirmed.

What answering needs

• Obtain the Wangrow, Schepker & Barker (2022) full text via the author's institutional repository (https://epublications.marquette.edu/mgmt_fac/377/, confirmed resolving; abstract only at capture) or the Journal of General Management publisher, and read the results/discussion for the actual mediation finding and its direction.
• Confirm or correct the paraphrase that the effect is "mediated by whether the new CEO also replaces the top management team."
• Related but separate: the Ren et al. (Heliyon 2023) quotes in the same note were directly fetched and do not need re-verification. This question is scoped to Wangrow only.

Progress log

• 2026-08-01: Second access attempt, still no full text. Every automated route 403'd (Marquette direct-PDF viewcontent.cgi, the same endpoint's type=additional ADA .docx, SAGE publisher page, extract_pdf, archive_page, WebFetch alike); no Wayback snapshot exists for the PDF; no mirror found (ResearchGate, CORE.ac.uk, SSRN, Academia.edu). What did improve: the abstract itself carries more detail than the 2026-07-09 pass had recorded — the mediation is conditional, not blanket. TMT replacement mediates the succession→strategic-change link for two of three antecedents (pre-succession performance, hiring an outsider as CEO) but not for involuntary CEO turnover, which is directly related to strategic change with no significant mediation. Written up as claim-tmt-replacement-mediation-is-conditional-on-succession-antecedent-type. This is a sharper paraphrase of the same abstract, not new access — the underlying ask (exact coefficients, significance levels, sample construction, and the paper's own explanation for why involuntary turnover behaves differently) is still unanswered. Leaving status: open; this is a partial answer, not closure. epublications.marquette.edu's viewcontent.cgi endpoint is now confirmed blocked across two independent sessions and every tooling route tried — worth treating as a known-blocked route (like ethw.org) rather than retrying a third time without a new access path.