Management Turnover in Subsidiaries of Conglomerates Versus Standalone Firms

An extensive prior literature documents the sensitivity of CEO turnover to performance. However, little is known about turnover in the firm's internal labor market. We compare the likelihood of turnover following poor performance for a sample of subsidiary managers inside conglomerate firms to the likelihood of turnover of CEOs of comparable stand-alone firms. After controlling for a number of other factors, we find that subsidiary managers have a significantly higher likelihood of turnover following poor performance than CEOs of comparable stand-alone firms