Studies of small and medium-sized enterprises have provided evidence
that CEOs of such firms can have a dominating influence on firm activities. Drawing
on upper echelons theory, we analyze the influence of CEO personality (CEO internal
locus of control), CEO ownership and CEO education on the evaluation of middle
manager performance. In line with our expectations, we find evidence for a direct
effect of CEO ownership (negative) and CEO education (positive) on the use of
objective performance evaluations and for a direct effect of the CEO's internal locus
of control on the use of subjective performance evaluations. Moreover, we provide
evidence for a moderating role of both CEO ownership and education with respect to the influence of the CEO's locus of control on the use of subjective evaluations.
We use a sample of 247 small and medium-sized manufacturing firms to test our hypotheses.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:5390 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Haas, Nora, Speckbacher, Gerhard |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41464-017-0027-x, http://link.springer.com/, http://epub.wu.ac.at/5390/ |
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