Corporate performance, CEO power and CEO Turnover: evidence from Malaysian public listed companies

This paper seeks to determine the impact of firm performance and CEO power on CEO turnover. Research in CEO turnover literature found that corporate performance is frequently used as an indicator to evaluate the effectiveness of CEO effort and findings from most of these studies indicate that the tu...

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Main Authors: Rokiah Ishak, Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail, Shamsul Nahar Abdullah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5802/
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spelling ukm-58022016-12-14T06:39:33Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5802/ Corporate performance, CEO power and CEO Turnover: evidence from Malaysian public listed companies Rokiah Ishak, Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail, Shamsul Nahar Abdullah, This paper seeks to determine the impact of firm performance and CEO power on CEO turnover. Research in CEO turnover literature found that corporate performance is frequently used as an indicator to evaluate the effectiveness of CEO effort and findings from most of these studies indicate that the turnover rate of CEO is higher for poor performing firm when compared to well performing firms, furthermore, social network theory and human capital theory suggest that CEO gain their power from their educational background; skill and functional background; special expertise experience; industry specialization; prestige; ownership;age;and lenght of tenure.This power will entrench the CEO in the company, thus making the decision to fire the underperforming CEO more difficult.Our result show that firms with poor performance and older CEO are more likely to change their CEO. In contrast, CEo turnover is less likely to occur when firms exercise CEO/Chairman duality; have CEO who own a certain portion of company shares; and have CEO with longer tenure. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5802/1/1216-2340-1-SM.pdf Rokiah Ishak, and Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail, and Shamsul Nahar Abdullah, (2012) Corporate performance, CEO power and CEO Turnover: evidence from Malaysian public listed companies. Jurnal Pengurusan, 35 (2). pp. 33-41. ISSN 0127-2713 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/penerbit/jurus.htm
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description This paper seeks to determine the impact of firm performance and CEO power on CEO turnover. Research in CEO turnover literature found that corporate performance is frequently used as an indicator to evaluate the effectiveness of CEO effort and findings from most of these studies indicate that the turnover rate of CEO is higher for poor performing firm when compared to well performing firms, furthermore, social network theory and human capital theory suggest that CEO gain their power from their educational background; skill and functional background; special expertise experience; industry specialization; prestige; ownership;age;and lenght of tenure.This power will entrench the CEO in the company, thus making the decision to fire the underperforming CEO more difficult.Our result show that firms with poor performance and older CEO are more likely to change their CEO. In contrast, CEo turnover is less likely to occur when firms exercise CEO/Chairman duality; have CEO who own a certain portion of company shares; and have CEO with longer tenure.
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author Rokiah Ishak,
Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail,
Shamsul Nahar Abdullah,
spellingShingle Rokiah Ishak,
Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail,
Shamsul Nahar Abdullah,
Corporate performance, CEO power and CEO Turnover: evidence from Malaysian public listed companies
author_facet Rokiah Ishak,
Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail,
Shamsul Nahar Abdullah,
author_sort Rokiah Ishak,
title Corporate performance, CEO power and CEO Turnover: evidence from Malaysian public listed companies
title_short Corporate performance, CEO power and CEO Turnover: evidence from Malaysian public listed companies
title_full Corporate performance, CEO power and CEO Turnover: evidence from Malaysian public listed companies
title_fullStr Corporate performance, CEO power and CEO Turnover: evidence from Malaysian public listed companies
title_full_unstemmed Corporate performance, CEO power and CEO Turnover: evidence from Malaysian public listed companies
title_sort corporate performance, ceo power and ceo turnover: evidence from malaysian public listed companies
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2012
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5802/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5802/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5802/1/1216-2340-1-SM.pdf
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