We examine the dynamics of corporate investment in Germany during the 2000s, a period marked by stagnant macroeconomic investment spending. Employing a mixed-methods approach, we explore investment trends across national accounts data, firm-level financials, and responses from financial...

Our paper contributes to the literature on executive successors other than the CEO by adding empirical evidence for CFO succession. We propose that the selection of outside successors may be contingent on the succession context and on the type of managerial role. We postulate that...