Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos (), Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The comparison of 1,114 family and professional CEOs reveals that family CEOs work 9% fewer hours relative to professional CEOs. Hours worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the differences in CEO labor supply across governance types by exploiting firm and industry heterogeneity, and quasi-exogenous meteorological and sport events. The evidence suggests that family CEOs value-or can pursue-leisure activities relatively more than professional CEOs.

Keywords: CEO; Time; Family firms; Competition; Productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 L2 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12
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