Influence of CEO power on the survival probability of B3 brazilian publicly traded companies
Abstract
This study verified the influence of CEO Power on the probability of survival of Brazilian companies in the capital market, considering the period from 2010 to 2018. The final sample was composed of 803 observations of non-financial companies active in Brazil, Bolsa, Balcão (B3). The method used was the Logistic Regression model (Logit), which uses a binary dependent variable, used in this study to classify the companies with greater and lesser probability of survival. The CEO Power (variable of interest) was analyzed from 4 dimensions of power, being: structural power (Power_Estrut), ownership power (Power_Prop), expert power (Power_Esp) and prestige power (Power_Prest). In addition to these, control variables were inserted such as company size (Tam), CEO age (Ida), avalanche (Ala), and profitability (Lucrat). The results showed that Power_Estrut has a negative influence on the companies' probability of survival, decreasing the company's chance of survival by 29.6%, while for Power_Prop and Power_Esp, the results showed that when the CEO is one of the 5 main shareholders of company or when it has training in the business area, the probability of survival of the companies increases by 147.4% and 42.3%, respectively. Therefore, it is concluded that such results are interesting because they reveal that even in a scenario in which most companies have a high concentration of ownership (Brazilian), CEO Power can be decisive for the survival of companies, that is, it can reveal that these professionals interfere in some way in the organizational performance and the continuity of the firms.
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