Existing research has documented the role that CEOs, and especially CEO regulatory focus, play in shaping firm strategy. Yet, the impact of CEOs is constrained by that of the other executives in the firm, and the strategic leadership literature has repeatedly called for more research that...

Research Summary: To address endogeneity concerns stemming from firm-CEO matching, we deploy a two-sided matching model that identifies the complementarities arising from the CEO-firm match and subsequently account for these complementarities in empirical tests. Applying this approach, we...

While prior research on shareholder activism has highlighted how such activism can economically benefit the shareholders of targeted firms, recent studies also suggest that shareholder activism can economically disadvantage non-shareholder stakeholders, notably employees. Our study extends this...