Prior reviews of the CEO turnover and succession literature suggest that empirical findings on organizational implications continue to be equivocal. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for examining the impact of CEO turnover and succession on organizational capabilities. Using the social network perspective as a theoretical lens, we identify conditions in which CEO turnover is exp...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Executive turnover Top management teams Strategic change Discontinued operations Power circulation theory While previous research suggests that CEO turnover correlates with strategic changes in firm's operations such as discontinuation of operations, we demonstrate that such findings apply only to specific types of CEO turnover, and only if non-CEO members of the...

This paper examines firm value creation associated with CEO turnover. The literature has focused on the heterogeneity in CEOs. We instead focus on the heterogeneity in post-turnover firm strategies, which are significant changes in senior management and operations. We show that the variation in strategy choices has significant explanatory power for the variation in postturnover performance. Exa...

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...

We analyze changes in the composition of top management teams when a key member of the team (the CEO) departs. We find that the probability of non-CEO top manager turnover increases markedly around times of CEO turnover. Further, the magnitude of this increase depends on the relations between the tenure of the manager and tenures of the departing and incoming CEOs. Departure of a long-tenured C...

In this paper we look at the effect of CEO turnover on the divisional investment of multi-divisional firms. We predict that after CEO turnover, new CEOs will use different divisional investment policy and internal capital allocation to realize strategy reorientation, improve firm performance or make more entrenchment. Furthermore, by looking at new CEO’s divisional preference at preand post-tur...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effective of investment inefficiency and cash holding on CEO turnover. This study applies logistic regression method estimator to investigate the relationship between examine the effective of investment inefficiency and cash holding on CEO turnover of 1,309 firm-year observations in Iran for the period of 2009-2019.  According to positive relati...

We study large discrete decreases in CEO pay and compare them to CEO forced turnover. The determinants are similar, as are the performance improvements after the action. After the pay cut, the CEO pay-for-performance sensitivity is abnormally high, such that the CEO can restore his pay level by reversing the poor performance. After either a pay cut or forced turnover, CEOs reduce investment and...

We identify several theories that each suggest a link between CEO turnover and changes among a firm’s top non-CEO managers. We then assess these links empirically using two panel data sets. We present five main findings. First, we find that CEO and non-CEO turnover are positively associated. Second, we do not find that this association is stronger when firm performance is poor. Third, this asso...

Separation between CEO and Chairman of the Board is typically viewed as evidence of good corporate governance. Surprisingly, the literature has failed so far to uncover any significant relation between CEO/Chairman duality and firm performance. By distinguishing between periods with and without CEO turnover, we empirically identify two offsetting effects: the correlation between duality and per...