Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the market reaction to the appointments of chief executive officers (CEOs) in companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The authors focussed on the relationship between the characteristics of a newly appointed CEO and the shareholders’...

A change in the person holding a key managerial position in a company is an important event for the company's stakeholders, and even more important when the company operates in the continental system of corporate governance and the CEO is the key person responsible for the strategic directions...