The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance

In this article we strive to reconcile equivocal findings about the effects of top leader succession and prior leadership experience on postsuccession organizational performance. In doing so, we draw on insights from theories of human capital, learning, and asymmetric information to better understan...

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Main Authors: Desai, Malay N., Lockett, Andy, Paton, David
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Published: Wiley 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50681/
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description In this article we strive to reconcile equivocal findings about the effects of top leader succession and prior leadership experience on postsuccession organizational performance. In doing so, we draw on insights from theories of human capital, learning, and asymmetric information to better understand the conditions under which leaders increase or decrease postsuccession performance. Employing a sample of 119 newly appointed leaders in the English Premier League (1996–2010), we find the following results. First, relating to the succession event, outside leaders that directly move between leadership positions are associated with higher postsuccession performance while the departure of a prior leader to a leadership position in another organization has a negative effect on postsuccession performance. Second, relating to prior leadership experience, leaders with domestic top leader experience are associated with lower postsuccession performance, while leaders with foreign top leader experience are associated with higher postsuccession performance.
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spelling nottingham-506812020-05-04T19:59:40Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50681/ The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance Desai, Malay N. Lockett, Andy Paton, David In this article we strive to reconcile equivocal findings about the effects of top leader succession and prior leadership experience on postsuccession organizational performance. In doing so, we draw on insights from theories of human capital, learning, and asymmetric information to better understand the conditions under which leaders increase or decrease postsuccession performance. Employing a sample of 119 newly appointed leaders in the English Premier League (1996–2010), we find the following results. First, relating to the succession event, outside leaders that directly move between leadership positions are associated with higher postsuccession performance while the departure of a prior leader to a leadership position in another organization has a negative effect on postsuccession performance. Second, relating to prior leadership experience, leaders with domestic top leader experience are associated with lower postsuccession performance, while leaders with foreign top leader experience are associated with higher postsuccession performance. Wiley 2016-12 Article PeerReviewed Desai, Malay N., Lockett, Andy and Paton, David (2016) The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance. Human Resource Management, 55 (6). pp. 967-984. ISSN 1099-050X leadership recruitment human capital https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hrm.21700 doi:10.1002/hrm.21700 doi:10.1002/hrm.21700
spellingShingle leadership
recruitment
human capital
Desai, Malay N.
Lockett, Andy
Paton, David
The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance
title The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance
title_full The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance
title_fullStr The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance
title_full_unstemmed The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance
title_short The effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance
title_sort effects of leader succession and prior leader experience on postsuccession organizational performance
topic leadership
recruitment
human capital
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50681/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50681/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50681/