In this paper, we review the theoretical and empirical literature on measuring the top management quality of firms, and its relation to various aspects of corporate financial policies and corporate innovation, and draw policy implications for enhancing corporate innovation. First, we discuss how...

Corporate innovation plays a crucial role in maintaining competitiveness and enhancing firm value. However, despite being the world's leading manufacturing nation, the role of managerial ownership in fostering innovation within the Chinese manufacturing industry has not received adequate...

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms’ innovation performance in the context of different institutional environments. Based on firm-level data from 27 Central and Eastern European countries we identify a robust positive relationship between...

Are CEOs' attitudes and beliefs linked to their firms' innovative performance? This paper uses Malmendier and Tate's measure of over-confidence, based on CEO stock-option exercise, to study the relationship between a CEO's revealed beliefs about future performance and standard measures of...

Innovation is the principle driver of firm and economic growth. Thus one disturbing trend that may explain stagnant growth is a 65% decline in firms' RQ. We propose that the rise of outside CEOs is partially responsible for the decline. While this proposition was motivated by interviews with...

Using a novel, manually-collected dataset, we find that firms whose chief executive officer (CEO) is an inventor experience significantly better innovation outcomes, as measured by patents and future citations. We obtain these results in models with firm fixed effects, in...

We examine the relationship of financial expert CEO on firm innovation. Using CEO individual level and firm-level data across Chinese A-share market from 2008 to 2015, the Poisson model estimation shows that the financial expert CEO has significant negative impact on firm innovation. A financial...

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of CEOs' overconfidence on corporate R&D. We analyze a sample of 766 firms from the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands between 2008 and 2013. We use three measures of managerial overconfidence: the press coverage of...