企业管理系学术讲座系列2021年第23讲

主 题：Navigating Strategic Change: New CEO’s Substantive and Symbolic Actions and Their Early Survival Prospects

主讲人: 易希薇（北京大学光华管理学院副教授）

时 间：2021-12-28 10:00

地 点：明商1008会议室

语 言：中英文

讲座摘要：

Newly appointed CEOs face a dilemma that they often have a mandate to initiate strategic change but are vulnerable to negative reactions from important constituents. This study examines how strategic change influences new CEOs’ early survival prospects as well as how new CEOs could manage the dilemma and navigate strategic change in their early career. We propose that while new CEOs’ strategic change is positively related to their early dismissal rate, this relationship can be attenuated by the new CEO’s sensegiving, defined as the process that CEOs engage in various social construction actions to shape organizational constituents’ interpretations and thus to secure their acceptance and support to the change. We examine two aspects of the sensegiving process, demonstrating charisma and strategic discourse, and operationalize these two constructs through a computer-aided content analysis utilizing quarterly earnings conference call transcripts. Using the sample of CEO successions of S&P 500 firms during the period from 2002 to 2012, we find support for our predictions. Our study makes important contributions to the CEO succession literature as well as to the strategic change literature.

主讲人简介：

易希薇，北京大学光华管理学院组织与战略管理系副教授、博士生导师。研究领域包括高层管理团队与战略决策、创业企业的成长、中国企业的国际化等。研究成果发表于国际顶尖学术期刊Academy of Management Journal、Strategic Management Journal、Academy of Management Perspective、《管理世界》、《哈佛商业评论》和《管理学季刊》。目前主持国家自然科学基金青年项目“新任CEO早期解聘风险的前因和管理”、参与国家自然科学基金重大项目“创新驱动创业的重大理论与实践问题研究”以及主持“光华思想力”平台的“知识产权保护与专利战略”课题。