Communication within firms: evidence from CEO turnovers
Stephen Michael Impink,
Andrea Prat and
Raffaella Sadun
POID Working Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Abstract:
This paper uses novel, firm-level measures derived from communications metadata before and after a CEO transition in 102 firms to study if CEO turnover impacts employees' communication flows. We find that CEO turnover leads to an initial decrease in intra-firm communication, followed by a significant increase approximately five months after the CEO change. The increase is driven primarily by vertical (i.e. manager to employee) communication. Greater increases in communication after CEO change are associated with greater increases in firm market returns.
Keywords: CEO change; communication; alignment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-08-31
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