Using a sample of Chinese firms, this study examines whether and how managers’ overseas experience affects firm’s cost equity capital. We document negative association between the Mechanism analyses indicate that companies with returnee managers have better information quality lower systematic risk; more institutional investors, media reports, analysts following; higher stock liquidity, all whi...

We investigate the association between chief executive officers’ (CEOs’) marital status and their tendency to profit from insider trading. argue that marriage can constrain CEOs’ opportunistic behaviour, which could increase litigation risk, show married CEOs earn lower trading returns compared unmarried CEOs. Insider trades be identified as either routine or opportunistic. also find are less l...

We adopt an interactionist logic to study the determinants of risk taking by chief executive officers (CEOs). We introduce the concept of ‘‘capability cues’’—contextual signals that decision makers might reasonably interpret as indicators of their current level of overall ability—arguing that positive cues will induce boldness, while negative cues will induce timidity. Then, drawing from prior ...

The study determined the critical variables inducing choice of mitigation and adaptation methods adopted by Small Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) against effect climate change on their enterprises in Southwest Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was employed to choose 200 SMEs Managers/Chief Executive Officers (100 mitigating 100 not mitigating) as respondents for study. Descriptive statis...

In this paper, we investigate the attentional engagement of chief executive officers (CEOs) large healthcare organizations in England. We study attention ethnographically as something managers do—at different times, context, and relation to others. find that CEOs match challenges volume, fragmentation, variety demands with a bundle practices activate attention, regulate quantity quality informa...

BACKGROUND Transformational change in health care calls on hospital boards of trustees to engage in quality ata level that has never been asked before. Yet little research has been conducted regarding the role of hospital governance in quality. METHODS Interviews were conducted with chief executive officers (CEOs) and board chairpersons from aconvenient sample of 30 hospitals, representing 14...

We study management turnover in the set of top 5 executives for a sample of 443 large firms from 1993-1998. Using information from news articles and severance disclosures in proxy statements, we find that the rate of forced turnover for non-CEOs is at least as great as the rate for CEOs, but the sensitivity of turnover to aggregate firm performance is relatively smaller for non-CEOs. The probab...

Purpose To better understand executive communication on social media, this paper examines the pattern of messages posted by chief executive officers (CEOs) on Twitter and their retweetability (rate of reposting by other users). Design/methodology/approach The study data comprises 1068 original tweets randomly selected from all Fortune 1000 CEOs tweets in 2014. The impact of the contextual facto...

We show that firms with chief executive officers (CEOs) who gain general managerial skills over their lifetime work experience invest more in R&D and produce more patents. We address the potential endogenous CEO-firm matching bias using firmand CEOfixed effects and variation in the enforceability of non-compete agreements across states and over time during the CEO’s career. Our findings suggest...

OBJECTIVE To elicit the opinions of family physician anesthetists (FPAs) and hospital Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) regarding the structure of their organizations and the importance of family medicine anesthesia. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Ontario hospitals. PARTICIPANTS The CEOs of Ontario hospitals and family physicians who provide anesthetic services in Ontario hospitals. MAIN O...