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From fiction to fact: The impact of CEO social networks
Kirchmaier, Thomas; Stathopoulos, Konstantinos - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between a CEO's social network, firm identity, and firm performance. There are … comprehensive measure of CEOs social networks, we observe for 363 non-financial firms in the UK that the size of a CEO's social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277938
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CEO Duality and Firm Performance Revisited
Mohammadi, Ali; Basir, Nada O.; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015
This paper replicates and extends the empirical work of Boyd’s 1995 article: CEO Duality and Firm Performance: A … to Boyd, we find that CEO duality is positively correlated to firm performance and the effect varies across environmental … dimensions of munificence, dynamism and complexity. Using quantile regression, we also show that the positive impact of CEO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200201
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Gender quotas on boards of directors
Smith, Nina - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance, but the empirical results are mixed and often negative. Current research does not justify gender quotas on grounds of economic efficiency. Furthermore, in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764635
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Gender quotas on boards of directors
Smith, Nina - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance, but the empirical results are mixed and often negative. Current research does not justify gender quotas on grounds of economic efficiency. Furthermore, in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404830
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Gender quotas on boards of directors
Smith, Nina - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors by gender quotas range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance. The introduction of gender quotas in a number of countries has increased female representation on boards. Current research does not justify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984676
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Gender quotas on boards of directors : little evidence that gender quotas for women on boards of directors improve firm performance
Smith, Nina - 2014
Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance, but the empirical results are mixed and often negative. Current research does not justify gender quotas on grounds of economic efficiency. Furthermore, in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413656
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Control Preference and Financial Attributes: Founders as CEOs in Small, Publicly Traded Firms
Lane, William R.; Jameson, Mel - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 3 (1993) 1, pp. 43-62
Existing theories of the firm are silent with respect to cross-sectional differences in performance or characteristics of firms attributable to different types of managers. We hypothesize that the investment, financing and dividend decisions of founders differ systematically from those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790642
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Control Preference and Financial Attributes: Founders as CEOs in Small, Publicly Traded Firms
Lane, William R.; Jameson, Mel - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 3 (1993) 1, pp. 43-62
Existing theories of the firm are silent with respect to cross-sectional differences in performance or characteristics of firms attributable to different types of managers. We hypothesize that the investment, financing and dividend decisions of founders differ systematically from those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310327
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Competing with superstars
Ammann, Manuel; Horsch, Philipp; Oesch, David - 2015
This paper investigates the effect of superstar CEOs on their competitors. Exploiting shocks to CEO status due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344197
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Social Networks and Country-to-Country Transfer : Dense and Weak Ties in the Diffusion of Knowledge
Djelic, Marie-Laure - 2012
This article investigates the social network dimension in processes of cross-national transfer. The empirical focus is the conscious attempt to appropriate, in France after 1945, the American model of the large firm. Structural conditions-internal crisis and geopolitical dependence-created the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755628