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CEO power and labor productivity

open access: yesAccounting Research Journal, 2019
PurposeThis 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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CEO Overconfidence, CEO Power, and Corporate Performance

open access: yes, 2022
Under the modern enterprise system, with the separation of ownership and control, executives are responsible for the daily operation of the enterprise. The personal characteristics of executives affect their behavioral tendencies and then affect the business choice and development direction of the enterprise, thus affecting corporate performance ...
Meng, Xiangsheng
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Mergers and CEO Power [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
I propose a model of mergers in which synergies and CEO power play a crucial role. A merger is modeled as a bargaining game between the acquiring and the target board of directors, with the gains from a merger divided according to the generalized Nash bargaining solution.
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CEOs and the Product Market: When are Powerful CEOs Beneficial?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
We examine whether industry product market conditions are important in assessing the benefits and costs of chief executive officer (CEO) power. We find that firms are more likely to have powerful CEOs in high demand product markets where firms are facing entry threats.
Minwen Li, Yao Lu, Gordon M. Phillips
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CEO Power and Luck: Impact of Stock Markets on Building Powerful CEOs

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
The optimal view of managerial power theory suggests that corporate boards reward CEOs with power for good firm performance as the boards' assessment of their ability is higher. In evaluating the CEO's quality, economic theory predicts that boards filter out luck from performance.
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Powerful CEOs and their Impact on Corporate Performance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
Executives can only impact firm outcomes if they have influence over crucial decisions. On the basis of this idea, we develop and test the hypothesis that firms whose CEOs have more decision-making power should experience more variability in performance.
Adams, Renee B.   +2 more
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Power Laws, CEO Compensation and Inequality

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
We observe that CEO compensation and top incomes in the US have both been increasing rapidly over the last thirty years. We hypothesize that the trends in CEO compensation have been caused by the same economy-wide factors that have contributed to increases in income.
Calvin Blackwell   +3 more
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CEO power and CEO hubris: a prelude to financial misreporting?

Management Decision, 2016
Purpose– 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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Power and the Japanese Ceo

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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CEOs and the paradox of power

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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