How do internal communication flows change when a new CEO is appointed?

CEO turnovers are significant organisational events that typically mark a discontinuity in firm strategy and operations. These likely changes are visible in internal communication flows. Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun study these flows in a novel way: they explore the evolution of internal communications metadata on emails and meetings for 102 firms that experienced a CEO change.

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Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

27 September 2021

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LSE Business Review

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2021/09/27/how-do-internal-communication-flows-change-when-a-new-ceo-is-appointed/

This work is published under POID and the CEP's Growth programme.

This publication comes under the following CEP theme: Management practices and productivity