Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

• Splitting the CEO and board chair positions influences stock performance positively when the firm has performed poorly and negatively when the firm has been performing well. • Effects are strongest when demoting the CEO from the board chair position, such that performance declines if prior performance was high and increases if performance is poor. • The CEO-board chair role is likely to be recombined if the prior CEO is board chair or if post-separation performance is strong.

Publication Date

2015

Disciplines

Business

Copyright

© 2015, University of South Carolina

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