TY - JOUR
T1 - The private life of CEOs
T2 - a strategic leadership perspective
AU - van Doorn, Sebastiaan
AU - Heyden, Mariano L.M.
AU - Reimer, Marko
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Anneke Lottmann Vizcaino and Sophia Kalusche for their research assistance. We would also like to thank Roman Barwinski (Bristol) and Jun Gu (Macquarie) for the opportunity to present and receive feedback on earlier drafts of this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - Major events in the private lives of CEOs have been a source of fascination for decades. However, despite gaining traction, studies on the relevant phenomena (e.g., marriage, divorce, parenthood, illness) remain scattered in parallel across disciplines. We thematically review the interdisciplinary evidence on the fast‐emerging literature on CEO private life events (72 unique studies) to consolidate our understanding of how private life events can become reflected in the professional domains of CEO influence. Through this approach, we comprehensively intersect empirical progress on CEO life events with key strategic leadership outcomes (i.e., performance, strategy, socio‐ethical issues, innovation, governance), allowing us to identify key gaps and highlight inconsistencies. We then propose several research opportunities and challenges to move the field from phenomenon‐driven standalone studies to a more coherent research program on the blurred boundaries between the private and professional lives of CEOs.
AB - Major events in the private lives of CEOs have been a source of fascination for decades. However, despite gaining traction, studies on the relevant phenomena (e.g., marriage, divorce, parenthood, illness) remain scattered in parallel across disciplines. We thematically review the interdisciplinary evidence on the fast‐emerging literature on CEO private life events (72 unique studies) to consolidate our understanding of how private life events can become reflected in the professional domains of CEO influence. Through this approach, we comprehensively intersect empirical progress on CEO life events with key strategic leadership outcomes (i.e., performance, strategy, socio‐ethical issues, innovation, governance), allowing us to identify key gaps and highlight inconsistencies. We then propose several research opportunities and challenges to move the field from phenomenon‐driven standalone studies to a more coherent research program on the blurred boundaries between the private and professional lives of CEOs.
KW - CEOs
KW - Life events
KW - Strategic leadership
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U2 - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101679
DO - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101679
M3 - Article
SN - 1048-9843
VL - 34
JO - The Leadership Quarterly
JF - The Leadership Quarterly
IS - 1
M1 - 101679
ER -