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- 2021
Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers
By: Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
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.
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Citation
Impink, Stephen Michael, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29042, July 2021. (Revised in 2022, Revise & Resubmit, Management Science.)