The accentuated CEO career horizon problem: evidence from international acquisitions

By E. Matta, Paul W. Beamish. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Do CEOs Matter to Firm Strategic Actions and Firm Performance? A Meta-Analytic Investigation Based on Upper Echelons Theory (2016, background): “First, as their career advances, CEOs are more concerned about their legacies and are less willing to pursue new initiatives and launch risky investments that threaten those legacies (Matta & Beamish, 2008).”
• Horizon problem and firm innovation: The influence of CEO career horizon, exploitation and exploration on breakthrough innovations (2017, background): “This line of research has shown that a CEO’s career horizon significantly affects such risky strategies as acquisitions (Matta and Beamish, 2008), research and development (R & D) (Barker and Mueller, 2002; Zona, 2016), capital expenditures (Cheng, 2004; Dechow and Sloan, 1991), and corporate…”
• When CEO Career Horizon Problems Matter for Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Roles of Industry-Level Discretion and Blockholder Ownership (2016, background): “While previous researchers have examined the relationship between CEO career horizon and organizational decisions such as R&D investments (Barker and Mueller 2002), strategic changes (Grimm and Smith 1991) and acquisitions (Matta and Beamish 2008), little examination has been undertaken to examine t”
• Leaders’ Impact on Organizational Change: Bridging Theoretical and Methodological Chasms (2019, background): “…time(Datta,Rajagopalan,& Zhang, 2003; Weng & Lin, 2014); the initiation of changes incompanydiversification(Bigley&Wiersema, 2002; Boeker, 1997; Song, 1982); an emphasis on innovation (Musteen, Barker III, & Baeten, 2010); or the initiation of international acquisitions (Matta & Beamish, 2008).”
• Managerial Risk Taking (2016, positive): “Furthermore, Matta and Beamish (2008) demonstrate that in addition to the traditional performance levels utilized in constructing reference points, CEOs’ career stage plays an important role in framing their risk-taking decisions.”
• Management Theory Applications of Prospect Theory: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Opportunities (2011, positive): “Likewise, Matta and Beamish (2008) argued that because CEOs are loss averse, they adopt gain frames and become risk averse when they have lucrative equity holdings and in-the-money stock options, especially when they near the end of their tenures.”