Here I come to save the day: Proposing necessary and sufficient conditions for founder-CEO comeback

• Main Authors: Krause, Ryan, ACHARYA, Abhijith G., Covin, Jeffrey G.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Founder-CEO; Succession; Theory-building; Firm life-cycle; Business; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4376; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2014.09.004
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Founder-CEOs have garnered considerable research attention from entrepreneurship scholars. Researchers have built and tested hypotheses about when founders will leave their firms, when they will stay, and how their presence impacts firm performance. However, no theory exists to explain when founders...