Examining CEO succession and the role of heuristics in earlystage CEO evaluation Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractThis study develops and tests predictions regarding factors that influence earlystage CEO evaluation. We suggest that contextual elements of the CEO succession process will influence the heuristics that directors employ to aid in their early evaluation of a CEO because traditional performance metrics, such as firm performance, are less diagnostic of CEO quality in the first years of their tenure. Broad empirical support for our theoretical arguments is shown in a sample of Fortune 1000 firms. Copyright 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

published proceedings

  • Strategic Management Journal

altmetric score

  • 0.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Graffin, S. D., Boivie, S., & Carpenter, M. A.

citation count

  • 109

complete list of authors

  • Graffin, Scott D||Boivie, Steven||Carpenter, Mason A

publication date

  • April 2013

publisher