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CEO characteristics: a review of influential publications and a research agenda

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This paper provides a systematic review of literature pertaining to CEO characteristics and firm performance. The CEO of a firm provides critical leadership, social capital, and legitimacy, and as such exerts significant influence on firm performance. By using a bibliographic mapping approach, we identify the fifty‐one most influential publications on CEO characteristics. This field has developed from a few Upper Echelon Theory publications into four distinct categories. We review each of these to identify the main contributions to this research area and to outline research gaps and future research trends.

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  • Yun Shen, 2021. "CEO characteristics: a review of influential publications and a research agenda," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 61(1), pages 361-385, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:acctfi:v:61:y:2021:i:1:p:361-385
    DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12571
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