Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

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

No 19722, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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.

JEL-codes: M1 M12 M5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12
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Published as Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun. "Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work." Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).

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