CEO Turnover in Russian Corporations

CEO Education, CEO Turnover, and Firm Performance

We analyze the effects of CEO education on CEO turnover (firing and replacement) and firm performance. Our primary interest is on the role that CEO education plays in a firm’s decision to replace its current CEO, the role that it plays in selecting a new CEO, and on whether CEO education significantly affects performance. We use six main measures of CEO education: whether or not the CEO attende...

Outside Directors and Ceo Turnover

‘this paper examines the relation between the monitoring of CEOs by inside aud outside directors and CEO resignations. CEO resignations are predicted using stock returns and earnings changes as measures of prior performance. There is a stronger association between prior performance and the prhability of a resignation for companies with outsider-dominated boards than for companies with insider-d...

CEO Turnover and Audit Pricing

Top management turnover can be classified into forced turnover and voluntary turnover. Forced CEO turnover may be triggered by poorer operating performance (Helwege et al. 2012) that fails to meet the expectation of corporate board; this pressure of immediate performance improvement may induce the incoming CEO to engage in earnings management (SAS No.99, AICPA 2002), and in turn increase the li...

Investigating Tax Avoidance Incentives in Corporations with Governmental Ownership based on CEO Tenure

The present study investigates the motivation for paying taxes in public companies based on the continuity of the CEO. Managers of public corporations may seek to increase profits and tax avoidance activities to provide a better image of the company and to preserve their personal position and interests. For this purpose, the data of the companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange for the peri...

The Performance Consequences of Ceo Turnover