Essays about: "Founder-CEO"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Founder-CEO.
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1. Understanding Founder-CEO Successions: A qualitative analysis of driving factors behind founder-CEO successions in Swedish growth firms
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategiAbstract : Founder-CEOs play a key role in the startup journey, but as the company grows, the role of the CEO changes and eventually, most founder-CEOs are succeeded by a professional CEO. While founders are not always considered to be suitable for managing a large complex organisation but rather known for their entrepreneurial spirit, there is little understanding of why founder-CEOs leave, or are forced to leave, their position. READ MORE
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2. Founders of the Future, A Succession for Success? The Role of Organizational Identification on Founder-CEO Succession in Social Enterprises
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledningAbstract : With the world facing increasing global challenges, an important contributor to solving those comes from social enterprises. A prerequisite for those types of companies to have a positive impact within our existing economic system is to be successful. READ MORE
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3. Do founder CEOs impact IPO performance: an empirical study on founder CEOs' effect on IPO performance in Sweden
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : This paper studies founder CEOs' impact on IPO performance, employing upper echelons, principal-agent, organisational life cycle, and signalling theories to address the potential differences between founder CEO-led firms and non-founder CEO-led firms. IPO performance is measured using initial return and 3-month return. READ MORE
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4. Getting What You Want but Not What You Need - A Qualitative Investigation of Founder-CEO Role Transition During Venture Growth
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledningAbstract : Entrepreneurship is considered essential for societal and economic development, stimulating technical advancement, decreasing unemployment, and generating tax revenues. Likewise, founder-led companies have been proven to generate higher value than externally led companies. READ MORE
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5. Performance of Swedish listed family-firms
University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Economics, Finance and StatisticsAbstract : This thesis investigates the performance of Swedish listed family-controlled firms using re-turn on assets (ROA) and Tobin’s Q as performance measures. Results show that found-ing-family firms perform 6.1 % better than other firms for ROA. Firm-specific knowledge of the founder-CEO is the main cause of the enhanced performance. READ MORE