Back to the future: The effect of returning family successions on firm performance
Amore, M. D., Bennedsen, M., Le Breton-Miller, I., & Miller, D. (2021)
Strategic Management Journal, 42(8), 1432-1458
489 Italian family firms losing a non-family CEO; difference-in-differences. Returning to a family CEO yields an 18% profitability advantage, weaker in volatile and innovation-reliant contexts.
Sourcedoi:10.1002/smj.327378 citations (OpenAlex)