Managing the family firm
Subtitle: evidence from CEOs at work
By: Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun
Contributors: Prat, Andrea, author; Sadun, Raffaella, author; Harvard Business School
Edition: Revised edition
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 14-044; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 14-044
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Description: We develop a new survey instrument to codify CEOs' diaries in large samples and use it to measure the labor supply of 1,114 family and professional CEOs of manufacturing firms across six countries (Brazil, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States). By this measure, family CEOs work 9% fewer hours relative to professional CEOs, even when we control for a wide range of CEO, firm and industry characteristics. The differences in hours worked between family and professional CEOs are larger when the opportunity cost of leisure is lower. We interpret these results as evidence of differences in preferences for leisure across CEOs rather than optimal responses to organizational differences correlated with ownership. Differences in labor supply are larger in countries where inheritance laws favor wealth concentration and are correlated with differences in firm performance.
Notes: "December 2013. (Revised December 2014.)" -- Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-26).