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Factors of CEO Failure: Mapping the Debate


Guido Stein


University of Navarra - IESE Business School

Javier Capapé


ESADE Business School - ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics

June 30, 2009

IESE Business School Working Paper No. ES-85

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The failure of the CEO has been studied at great length in the literature. We order and classify the factors that lead to CEO failure into those a CEO can influence (endogenous) and those that are given (exogenous). The absence of unanimity in the literature leads us to concluye that limited attention has been paid to the main factor: the personal characteristics of CEOs. The agency approach and method are insufficient to understand leadesrship perfomance in organizations, due to the oversimplified view of human nature on which they are based and their heavy reliance on mathematical modeling.

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Number of Pages in PDF File: 60

Keywords: CEO, turnover, corporate governance, agency theory, business ethics, succession

JEL Classification: M51, M52, M54, G34, G39

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Date posted: February 24, 2010 ; Last revised: May 3, 2010

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Stein, Guido and Capapé, Javier, Factors of CEO Failure: Mapping the Debate (June 30, 2009). IESE Business School Working Paper No. ES-85. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1427834 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1427834

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Guido Stein
University of Navarra - IESE Business School ( email )
Avenida Pearson 21
Barcelona, 08034
Spain
Javier Capapé Aguilar (Contact Author)
ESADE Business School - ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics ( email )
Mateo Inurria, 25-27
Madrid, 28036
Spain
+34 913 597 714 (Ext. 5285) (Phone)
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