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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"CEO Succession"”.
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CEO succession processes and agency costs
In the 'passing the baton' succession process, the incumbent CEO/Chairman relinquishes the CEO title, but retains the Chairman title to facilitate monitoring the new CEO during a probationary period. The new CEO eventually wins the Chairman title if he is successful during the probationary period. …
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Leadership Vacillation as a Pattern of CEO Succession: Existence, Antecedents, Boundary Conditions, and Performance Implications
<p>CEO succession is a vital organizational decision because organizational strategy is a reflection of the experiences of a firm's top leader. The dissertation studies CEO succession by exploring its pattern, which reveals a dynamic nature of many succession decisions. One specific succession …
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Succession rules for CEO in Japanese firms : institutions and agency
The succession of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has attracted growing attention from social scientists and management researchers. CEO succession provides a context in which individual decisions and agency, stakeholder interests and conflict, and the organizational needs for legitimacy and …
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THE EFFECTS OF SUCCESSOR CEO’S ORIGIN ON AUDITORS’ CLIENT RISK ASSESSMENT AND CONTINUANCE DECISIONS FOLLOWING A CORPORATE SCANDAL
… examines the effects of chief executive officer (CEO) succession and successor origin on auditors’ client risk assessment, continuance, and audit effort decisions following a major scandal in a client firm. 83 experienced audit professionals drawn from U.S. public accounting firms participated in …
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TURBULENCE AND CHANGES
… to external turbulence, chapter 3 studies CEO succession events as one important source of internal turbulence. Specifically, leveraging agency theory and power perspective, we investigate how different succession types influence the potential post-succession firm innovation performance.
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Succession events : an empirical study of succession and leadership effects on shareholders expectations of future earnings moderated by the context and content of the event
Succession and leadership effects are two important elements to the understanding of the impact of CEO succession on the performance of the organization as measured by shareholders' expectations of future earnings. This relationship is moderated by the presuccession performance - a context variable …
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Bridging the gender gap: factors enabling female directors to affect the appointment of female CEOs
… that a firm will appoint a woman to the CEO position. To study the relationship, I first draw on social identity theory to explain female directors’ preference for a female CEO candidate. Then, considering that female directors' minority status may constrain their ability to affect group …
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Essays On CEO Turnover, Succession, And Compensation
This dissertation is a series of study on CEO turnover, succession, and compensation, which consists of three essays. In essay 1, I investigate how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) affects CEO tenure and the characteristics of CEO turnover. I do not find a significant relation between financial …