Title: Corporate social responsibility and types of CEO turnover

Authors: Dmitriy Chulkov; Xiaoqiong Wang

Addresses: School of Business, Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, Indiana, 46904, USA ' College of Business and Industry, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama, 36265, USA

Abstract: This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and different types of chief executive officer (CEO) turnover. Our findings, based on a sample of over 2500 US firms, clarify how CSR engagement relates to CEO turnover by reason and source of new CEO. Firms with higher CSR measures are positively associated with the firing of CEOs and negatively associated with normal retirements. Low-CSR firms are more likely to experience contender successions that indicate a power struggle within the firm's management. This relationship becomes stronger when other members of the top management team (TMT) leave the firm at the time of CEO turnover. The results suggest that CSR is an indicator of good corporate governance.

Keywords: CEO turnover; CSR; corporate social responsibility; financial economics; contender succession; corporate governance; statistical modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEF.2024.139052

International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2024 Vol.17 No.2/3, pp.170 - 178

Received: 19 Jan 2023
Accepted: 29 Oct 2023

Published online: 10 Jun 2024 *

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