Ahn, Sanghoon; Bhattacharya, Utpal; Jung, Taehun; Nam, … - In: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 17 (2009) 5, pp. 628-650
In a country where individualism is emphasized less than in Western countries, we ask whether the CEO (shacho) of a Japanese corporation positively affects firm performance. To answer this question, we construct a shacho-firm matched panel data set in the period 1990 through 2002 of all listed...