The Role Of CEO Characteristics In Firm Innovative Performance: A Comparative Analysis Of EU Countries And Russia

Fernanda Ricotta, Victoria Golikova () and Boris Kuznetsov
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Victoria Golikova: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: In this paper, we investigate whether CEO characteristics (owner-manager status, age and gender) influence firm innovative performance and test empirically if the effect differs for market and transition economies. We use cross-sectional data of manufacturing firms in six EU countries and in Russia. To address heterogeneity, we explore innovation performance by size among SMEs and large businesses and by Pavitt sector. In both institutional settings, the presence of a family CEO either has no effect or improves innovative performance. On the contrary, the role of CEO gender is different in Russia and in the EU. In the EU, female CEOs are associated with less innovation, especially in SMEs and in the traditional sector. In Russia, CEO gender is not associated with differences in innovative performance and when it is (for the traditional sector), it favors female-run firms. For CEO age, considering product innovations, the oldest group of CEOs are less active in European firms while mature CEOs are more innovative in Russia.

Keywords: CEO age; gender; manager-owner status; innovation; manufacturing firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 L60 P50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2021
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Published in WP BRP Series: Economics / EC, September 2021, pages 1-35

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