Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

• Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have had an increasing ability to affect firm performance, positively or negatively, in more recent decades. • While characteristics of firms and industry level effects still significantly influence firm performance, these effects are decreasing while CEO effects are increasing.

Publication Date

2015

Source

Quigley, T.J. & Hambrick, D.C. (2014). Has the “CEO Effect” Increased in Recent Decades? A New Explanation for the Great Rise in America’s Attention to Corporate Leaders. Strategic Management Journal, 36: 821-830.

Disciplines

Business

Copyright

© 2015, University of South Carolina

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