@techreport{WulfStubner2009,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Wulf, Torsten and Stubner, Stephan},
  title     = {Executive succession and firm performance},
  series    = {HHL-Arbeitspapier},
  institution = {Chair of Strategic Management and Digital Entrepreneurship},
  series    = {HHL-Arbeitspapier / HHL Working paper},
  number    = {86},
  pages     = {33, I-XV},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Building on strategy-CEO fit research and organizational learning theory, we explore the relationship between CEO succession - specifically a certain skill set of the new CEO - and post-succession performance. For this purpose, we introduce the concept of position-specific skills of a new CEO and empirically test it using a sample of 59 CEO succession events that occurred between 1990 and 2005 in 50 of the largest publicly listed companies in Germany. Results show that position-specific skills of new CEOs actually have an influence on post-succession performance during the early tenure of a CEO. Thus, we conclude that organizational learning theory and position-specific skills of new CEOs offer a promising basis for executive succession research and that they deserve further attention.},
  language  = {en}
}