Journal of Banking & Finance Vol. 26 No. 12 2002
Monitoring by the financial press and forced CEO turnover
Abstract
This paper examines Wall Street Journal news stories about 79 firms that forced CEO turnover and a matched sample of firms that did not force CEO turnover. In the two years prior to turnover, firms in the forced-turnover sample were the subjects of 76% more news stories about poor firm performance despite being from the same industry, of similar size, and similar performance as a sample of matched firms. Overall, the evidence suggests that scrutiny of poor firm performance by the financial press increases the likelihood of forced CEO turnover.
- DOI
- 10.1016/s0378-4266(01)00183-2
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 2249-2276
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref bibtex:phds-export.bib