This study focused on integrating digital methodologies in personnel selection processes and explored the psychometric properties of virtual assessment centers as alternatives to traditional ones. We evaluated the validity of a virtual application of an assessment center and its fairness in...

Purpose We investigated the relationship between personality and managerial assessment center (AC) dimensions, emphasizing age's moderating role within volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity (VUCA) simulations. Design/methodology/approach We analyzed 327 managers and applied the AC...

Die Hälfte der hiesigen Unternehmen berichtete im Jahr 2023 von zunehmenden Problemen bei der Besetzung von Führungspositionen aufgrund einer fehlenden Bereitschaft auf Seiten der Beschäftigten, Führungsverantwortung übernehmen zu wollen. Größere Unternehmen sind davon seltener betroffen...

Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our data distinguish our analysis from the previous...

Prior research documents how companies often rely on their own limited networks when searching for new directors. In this study, we ask the following question: How does audit committee (AC) selection differ if a machine makes audit committee (AC) appointments? Using a large dataset of potential...

In an increasingly competitive market environment, as an important decision for strategic change, CEO succession is a key step to driving sustainable development. The formulation of succession plans and how to improve the effectiveness of internal promotion mechanisms have been researched topics...

Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policymakers. Yet, we know little about director appointment dynamics and the drivers and impediments of women appointments. This study builds on organizational and group-level behavior theories and...

Introduction. Chapter One: Bringing Clarity to Key Manager Functions. CHAPTER TWO: Leadership: Where Are We Going? Chapter Three: Applicant Interview Matching System (Aims - Hitting the Hiring Target). Chapter Four: Performance Can Be Managed. Chapter Five: Change Management, Teams and...

Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in...

Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in...

This paper examines how the size of the corporate directors' labor market affects board appointments in Italian private limited liability firms. As an exogenous shock to a firm's access to potential non-local directors, we exploit the gradual expansion of the high-speed railway network that...

Using 9,801 director appointments during 2003-2014, we document the dramatic impact of connections - 69% of new directors have professional ties to incumbent boards, a group representing 13% of all potential candidates. Consistent with facilitating coordination and reducing search costs,...

We examine whether similarities in legal, sociological, and cultural characteristics between countries (country-pair homophily) affect foreign director appointments. Our results from estimating a gravity model, which includes economic and geographic country characteristics, indicate that...

We examine how the size of the corporate directors' labor market affects the quality of board appointments in Italian private firms. To establish the causality of the relationship, we exploit exogenous variations in firms' access to non-local potential directors following the gradual...

Spitzensportlern werden in der Literatur ähnliche Persönlichkeitseigenschaften wie Führungskräften in der Wirtschaft zugeschrieben. Unter Nutzung des Fünf- Faktoren-Modells der Persönlichkeit lässt sich in einer geringen Anzahl an Studien im deutschsprachigen Raum für beide Gruppen ein...

We examine whether similarities in legal, sociological, and cultural characteristics between countries (country-pair homophily) affect foreign director appointments. Our results from estimating a gravity model, which includes economic and geographic country characteristics, indicate that...

We document a stylized fact that more than 10% of S&P 1500 companies have hired a CEO who starts the job near or above the retirement age of 65 years old (Retiring CEOs). This phenomenon exists among all industries and persists over time. This finding is puzzling because conventional wisdom...