Individual and Organizational Factors Surrounding Top Executive Turnover.

Intro -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION -- 1.2 RESEARCH SETTING AND DEFINITIONS -- 1.3 RESEARCH APPROACH AND GUIDING QUESTIONS -- 1.4 COURSE OF THE INVESTIGATION AND OVERVIEW OF THE THREE ESSAYS -- 1.4.1 Essay 1: The Use and Effectiveness of Top Executive Dismissal -- 1.4.2 Essay 2: Pay Disparity, External Pay Level and Turnover of the Second-Best-Paid Executive -- 1.4.3 Essay 3: Staying Above the Glass Ceiling: A Propensity Score Analysis of Gender Differences in Top Executive Turnover -- 2 THE USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF TOP EXECUTIVE DISMISSAL -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 TOP EXECUTIVE DISMISSAL AND LEADERSHIP FAILURE -- 2.2.1 Lack of Independence -- 2.2.2 Unclear Performance Evaluation Standards -- 2.2.3 Pressures Inherent to the Process of Deciding on Dismissal -- 2.3 DATA AND METHODS -- 2.3.1 Sample -- 2.3.2 Analytic Approach -- 2.4 RESULTS -- 2.4.1 Research Approaches of Empirical Studies on Top Executive Dismissal -- 2.4.2 Possible Antecedents of Top Executive Dismissal -- 2.4.3 Moderators and Boundary Conditions of the Performance-Dismissal Relationship -- 2.4.4 Possible Consequences of Top Executive Dismissal -- 2.5 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- 2.5.1 Towards a Conceptual Model of the Antecedents of Executive Dismissal -- 2.5.2 The Possible Consequences of Executive Dismissal -- 2.5.3 Leadership Implications for Boards and Successors -- 2.5.4 Establishing Causality in the Dismissal-Performance Relationship -- 2.5.5 Limitations of our Approach and Directions for Future Research -- 3 PAY DISPARITY, EXTERNAL PAY LEVEL AND TURNOVER OF THE SECOND-BEST-PAID EXECUTIVE -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 THEORY AND HYPOTHESES -- 3.2.1 Direct Effects of Pay Disparity, External Pay Level and Age on Turnover -- 3.2.2 Interaction Effects of Age with Pay Disparity and External Pay Level on Turnover -- 3.3 DATA AND METHODS -- 3.3.1 Sample.

3.3.2 Dependent Variable -- 3.3.3 Independent Variables -- 3.3.4 Control Variables -- 3.3.5 Analytic Approach -- 3.4 RESULTS -- 3.4.1 Descriptive Statistics -- 3.4.2 Competing-Risks Survival Regression Analysis -- 3.5 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- 4 STAYING ABOVE THE GLASS CEILING: A PROPENSITY SCORE ANALYSIS OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN TOP EXECUTIVE TURNOVER -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 THEORY AND HYPOTHESES -- 4.2.1 Gender Differences -- 4.2.2 Consequences of Gender Differences -- 4.3 DATA AND METHODS -- 4.3.1 Sample -- 4.3.2 Outcome Variable -- 4.3.3 Treatment Variable -- 4.3.4 Baseline Covariates -- 4.3.5 Analytic Approach -- 4.4 RESULTS -- 4.4.1 Descriptive Statistics, Correlations and Univariate Test -- 4.4.2 Propensity Score Analysis with Treatment Variable Gender -- 4.4.3 Propensity Score Analysis with Treatment Variable Gender Composition -- 4.5 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- 5 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- 5.1 SYNOPSIS OF RESEARCH OBJECTIVES -- 5.2 OVERALL FINDINGS AND THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS -- 5.3 MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS -- 5.4 METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS -- 5.5 LIMITATIONS OF MY DISSERTATION AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH.

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