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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 32, Issue 11, Pages 1161-1182Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/smj.932
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CEO dismissal; CEO succession; investment analysts; certification
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While poor firm performance has been shown to be a predictor of CEO dismissal, little is known about the role of external constituents on the board's decision to dismiss the firm's CEO. In this study, we propose that investment analysts, as legitimate third-party evaluators of the firm and its leadership, provide certification as to the CEO's ability, or lack thereof, and thus help reduce the ambiguity associated with the board's evaluation of the CEO's efficacy. In addition, the board tends to respond to investment analysts because their stock recommendations influence investors, whom the board wants to appease. Using panel data on the S&P 500 companies for the 2000-2005 period, we find that negative analyst recommendations result in a higher probability of CEO dismissal. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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