Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

Companies with outside CEOs experience declines in R&D productivity compared to those who hire inside CEOs. • Productivity declines are most drastic for companies heavily dependent on R&D, but can be lessened by hiring an outside CEO from a similar industry or with prior CEO experience. • Long-term incentive compensation increases R&D productivity for inside CEOs, but not for outside CEOs.

Publication Date

2018

Source

Cummings, T. & Knott, A.M. 2018. Outside CEOs and innovation. Strategic Management Journal, DOI: 10.1002/smj.2792.

Disciplines

Business

Copyright

© 2018, University of South Carolina

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