Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

• CEO investment patterns in R&D mimic the investment of outside firms on whose board the CEO sits. • CEOs are more likely to imitate the R&D investments of firms on whose boards they serve when they have served on the board longer, the firm’s financial performance is stronger, and the firm is smaller than the CEO’s company.

Publication Date

2016

Disciplines

Business

Copyright

© 2016, University of South Carolina

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Business Commons

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