Kempf, Alexander; Pütz, Alexander; Sonnenburg, Florian - Institut für Finanzmarktforschung, Wirtschafts- und … - 2013
We study the decisions and performance of managers who are also chair of the board (duality managers). We hypothesize … that duality managers take more risky decisions and deliver worse performance than non-duality managers due to reduced … hypotheses: Duality managers take risk that they could easily avoid, deviate from their benchmarks, make extreme decisions, and …