| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10492691 | Journal of Business Research | 2015 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
This study investigates the importance of CEO-level effects for firms' strategic actions, compared with the impact of firm- and industry-level effects. Strategic actions reflect the firm's competitive initiatives and choices regarding financial issues and resource allocation. Drawing on strategic leadership theories, the resource-based view, industrial organization economics, and the reconciling approach of managerial discretion, this study proposes that the CEO's influence varies across different categories of strategic actions. By applying a variance decomposition approach to a 20-year sample of 110 firms in 10 industries, the authors reveal that for competitive initiatives, CEO-level effects are associated with the largest amount of variance, together with firm-level effects. Contrary to expectations, firm-level effects are most relevant for financial choices, followed by CEO effects. Resource allocation depends mainly on firm-level effects, rather than on CEO- or industry-level effects.
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Authors
Nicolas A. Zacharias, Bjoern Six, Dirk Schiereck, Ruth Maria Stock,