Do CEO’s traits matter in innovation outcomes?

Nadia Loukil () and Ouidad Yousfi ()
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Nadia Loukil: University of Carthage, ISG Bizerte, University of Tunis El-Manar, FCF UR, FSEG Tunis
Ouidad Yousfi: MRM University of Montpellier. Université de Montpellier, IUT de Montpellier-Sète CC411

Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 2022, vol. 20, issue 3, No 2, 375-403

Abstract: Abstract The study investigates the influence of CEO attributes on innovation outcomes on all firms listed on the SBF120 index between 2001 and 2013. We provide the following results. First, CEOs who graduate in business are less prone to introduce new products, while science-educated CEOs are more likely to increase the number of patents in high-technology firms. Second, the longer is the CEO tenure, the lower are the innovation outcomes, specifically in high-tech industry. Third, CEO owners are likely to invest in long-term profitable activities such as innovative projects. This drives more innovation outcomes. CEO founders, however, are more concerned about the implementation of new processes. Finally, robustness tests show that the number of patents decreases, on the long term, in the presence of female CEOs.

Keywords: CEO’s attributes; Product innovation; Process innovation outcomes; Patent; High-technology firms; Attributs du PDG; Innovation de produit; Innovation de processus; Brevet; Entreprises de haute technologie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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