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CEO power and CEO hubris: a prelude to financial misreporting?
Management Decision, 2016Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore how the tension between a firm’s CEO power features and externally observable hubris attributes may determine the likelihood of financial misreporting.Design/methodology/approach– The analyses are based on a sample of 16 Canadian firms for which there were formal accusations of financial reporting fraud ...
Denis Cormier +2 more
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CEO Power, CEO Compensation, and Firm Performance
Journal of Finance IssuesWe investigate the impact of CEO power on the relation between CEO compensation and firm performance to find how CEO incentive compensation affects firm performance by reducing agency conflicts between managers and shareholders. We measure the CEO pay slice (CPS) for CEO power and the pay-performance sensitivity (PPS) for CEO incentive compensation ...
S M Muyeed Hasan +2 more
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Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 1990
This paper explores the sources of Japanese CEO power and the processes through which power is acquired. Japanese CEOs realise two types of power, positional and personal. Positional power derives from strategic contingencies which encompass the office CEO.
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This paper explores the sources of Japanese CEO power and the processes through which power is acquired. Japanese CEOs realise two types of power, positional and personal. Positional power derives from strategic contingencies which encompass the office CEO.
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CEO Power and Mergers and Acquisitions
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014We find CEO power in acquiring firms can explain the occurrence of both large value creation and destruction deals in M&A. Specifically, we find firms with powerful CEOs make fewer deals and the returns on those deals are less dispersed. Firms with powerful CEOs are also less likely to do all cash deals and use a larger proportion of stocks in payments.
Ning Gong, Lixiong Guo
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Business Horizons, 1982
C hief executive officers have a power problem.They possess considerable formal authority, yet a survey of nearly 400 CEOs showed that one in three reported worrying several times a year about being abruptly removed from office. 1 These apprehensions seem to be well founded.
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C hief executive officers have a power problem.They possess considerable formal authority, yet a survey of nearly 400 CEOs showed that one in three reported worrying several times a year about being abruptly removed from office. 1 These apprehensions seem to be well founded.
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Board composition and CEO power
Journal of Financial Economics, 2014Abstract We study the optimal composition of corporate boards. Directors can be either monitoring or advisory types. Monitoring constrains the empire-building tendency of chief executive officers (CEOs). If shareholders control the board nomination process, a non-monotonic relation ensues between agency problems and board composition.
Tim Baldenius +2 more
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Incentive Contracts are not Rigged by Powerful CEOs
Critical Finance Review, 2012Morse et al. (2011), henceforth MNS, interpret the data to suggest that more powerful CEOs ex post change their incentive contracts to put greater weight on performance measures that are ex-post more favorable. My paper points out a number of issues with their inference. First and most importantly, MNS do not control for the fact that not just the most
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Power to the CEO? Sources of CEO Power and Its Influences on Strategic Choices and Firm Performance
2023Power relations in the upper echelon have been a focal point in strategic management literature. However, the dynamic environment requires rapid decision making, raising the question of whether to centralize power in the CEO. In that respect, this thesis aims to identify the sources of CEO power and its impact on strategic choices and firm performance.
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CEO power and labor productivity
Accounting Research Journal, 2019PurposeThis paper aims to examine how Chief Executive Officer (CEO) power affects firm-level labor productivity.Design/methodology/approachThe authors rely on regression analysis to examine the relation between CEO power and labor productivity.FindingsFollowing prior research (i.e.
Emily Breit +3 more
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Female directors and CEO power
Economics Letters, 2018Abstract Beyond the recent studies on boardroom gender diversity, this letter investigates the effect of boardroom gender diversity on CEO power. Using the data of all A-share listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges for 2005–2015 we find reliable evidence that gender diversity on the board is positively associated with CEO power.
Muhammad Usman +4 more
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