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posted on 2017-09-05, 10:00 authored by Mathew Hughes, Paul Hughes, Kamel Mellahi, Cherif GuermatStudies into the impact of top manager change on organization performance have revealed inconsistent findings. Using longitudinal data over a 12-year period on football organizations, we test for the short-term and long-term effects of manager change in comparison to the tenures of incumbent top managers. We find that long incumbent tenures are associated with performance far above the average. But when looking at change events, contrary to theoretical expectations, we find that change in the short term leads to a brief reprieve in poor performance only for performance to deteriorate in the long term as underlying weaknesses once again take hold. Our findings reveal the illusion of a short-term reprieve and the long-term consequences of this illusion. We map several implications for research and practice from our work.
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School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
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British Journal of ManagementVolume
21Issue
2Pages
571 - 589Citation
HUGHES, M. ... et al., 2010. Short-term versus long-term impact of managers: evidence from the football industry. British Journal of Management, 21 (2), pp.571-589.Publisher
John Wiley & Sons (© British Academy of Management)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2010ISSN
1045-3172eISSN
1467-8551Publisher version
Language
- en