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Organisation >> Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät >> Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre >> Gründungs- und Innovationsmanagement >>
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Forschungsseminar für Masterstudierende (bwlResSemGuI1-01a): CEO Turnover and Firm Innovation – An Attention-Based View (FS-ABV) (030182)- Dozentinnen/Dozenten
- Prof. Dr. Achim Walter, Monika Sienknecht, Carolin Lielienthal
- Angaben
- Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS-Studium, ECTS-Credits: 5
Praesenzveranstaltung
Zeit und Ort: Einzeltermine am 14.4.2025, 2.5.2025, 23.5.2025, 6.6.2025 9:15 - 12:15, WR425 - R.10[ZfB] Gutenberg
- Studienfächer / Studienrichtungen
- WPFL BWL-M ab 2 (ECTS-Credits: 5)
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Module code: bwlResSemGuI1-01a
Module number: 2038400
Examination number: 2038410
Examination form according to the FPO: Seminar assignment
Admission requirement: None
Examination form in summer term 2025: Research proposal, presentations, data collection
Link to the OLAT course: forthcoming
The credit points and admission to the examination for this module are based on the information regarding this module in the FPO applicable to you. If this module is not explicitly included in your FPO, please find out about admission options and participation possibilities at the beginning of the semester. Typically, admission to the examination is then not possible. You may verify whether the module linked to the UniVis-examination number is listed in the examination registration overview in QIS. Registration is only possible during the registration period. If you still have questions after reviewing these documents, please contact your academic advisor.
(Die Leistungspunkte sowie die Zulassung zur Prüfung für dieses Modul ergeben sich aus den Angaben bezüglich dieses Moduls in der für Sie gültigen FPO. Ist dieses Modul in Ihrer FPO nicht explizit wählbar, informieren Sie sich bitte zu Beginn des Semesters über Zulassungsoptionen und Teilnahmemöglichkeiten. Typischerweise ist eine Zulassung zur Prüfung dann nicht möglich. Sie können vorab auch in QIS überprüfen, ob Sie das Modul mit der in Univis genannten Prüfungsnummer dort in der Übersicht zur Prüfungsanmeldung bei Ihnen gelistet finden. Eine Anmeldung ist nur während des Anmeldezeitraums möglich. Sollten nach Durchsicht dieser Dokumente noch Fragen offen sein, wenden Sie sich bitte an Ihre/n Studienfachberater/in.)
Participation and allocation of seminar spots:
The seminar is aimed at students of the Master's degree program in Business Administration as well as Master's students of the “Studienkolleg BWL” (Wi.-Inf., Wi.-Ing. ET & IT and MaWi, Wi.-Chem.). The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 20 students. Students can apply individually or as a team of two students (names and matriculation numbers needed). Applicants register online for the OLAT course “CEO Succession and Firm Innovation – An Attention-Based View”.
If a withdrawal takes place after 05.04.2025, the module will be assessed with a grade of 5.0.
Please send any questions regarding the seminar to: m.sienknecht@bwl.uni-kiel.de
- Inhalt
- Course Description
This research seminar is designed for master students interested in strategic leadership and innovation management. The course will focus on CEO turnover (exploring e.g., insider succession, outsider succession, dual CEO succession, board-imposed or investor-driven turnover, planned succession, or CEO dismissal) and its implications for firm innovation. Our guiding theoretical framework will be the Attention-Based View (ABV), which provides a lens to understand how CEOs allocate attention and how this shapes firm outcomes.
Students will engage in an in-depth study of programmatic and unit theory, learning how to link broad theoretical perspectives such as the ABV to specific, testable constructs. Specifically, we will examine how CEO turnover influences firm innovation, drawing on research such as that of Cummings and Knott (2018), who examine the impact of outside CEO hiring on firm innovation, measuring firm innovation as the firm-specific elasticity of R&D and defining outside CEOs as those who have prior leadership experience in another firm within a two-year period before their appointment as CEO.
By the end of the seminar, students will have gained practical research experience, an advanced understanding of theoretical linkages in research on strategic leadership, and innovation management, and insights into how executive leadership affects innovation outcomes.
Seminar Objectives
1. Understanding Programmatic Theory – Students will learn about the Attention-Based View (ABV) and its relevance to strategic decision-making and CEO succession.
2. Exploring a Unit Theory – Students will identify and operationalize key constructs (e.g., CEO turnover type, CEO attention, and firm innovation) and articulate causal mechanisms linking them.
3. Data Collection and Analysis – Students will engage in empirical research by gathering data on CEO turnover, firm innovation, and firm-level financial data examination.
4. Theoretical Contribution – Students will critically assess existing literature and propose novel research questions and hypotheses based on empirical findings.
Methodology
• Literature Review: Readings on ABV, CEO turnover, and innovation, including empirical studies.
• Data Collection: Students will compile data on CEO characteristics, CEO turnover and innovation proxies (e.g., R&D expenditure changes).
• Data Analysis: Training-by-example in extracting CEO attention metrics (e.g., from shareholder letters or websites).
• Discussion and Synthesis: Group discussions linking theory and empirical results.
Assessment:
• Literature Review (25%): Summarizing key insights from ABV and CEO turnover literature.
• Data Collection Assignment (25%): Collecting and coding data on CEO turnover and firm innovation.
• Developing a research proposal (50%, max. 20 pages without appendix): Exploring a unit theory linking CEO turnover, attention, and firm innovation and explain how the theory could be tested. The proposal must be written according to the guidelines of the chair (see homepage).
• Presentation of the research proposal (with PowerPoint). The presentation is prepared and presented jointly by the team members. The total presentation time per team is 45 minutes (15 minutes presentation + 30 minutes discussion).
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Please prepare for the kick-off event by reading the studies listed below.
A) Introduction to the ABV:
Liu, Y., Xi, M., & Wales, W. J. (2024). CEO entrepreneurial orientation, human resource management systems, and employee innovative behavior: An attention‐based view. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 18(2), 388-413.
B) How to link the attention-based view (ABV) to specific constructs:
Oh, W. Y., & Barker III, V. L. (2018). Not all ties are equal: CEO outside directorships and strategic imitation in R&D investment. Journal of Management, 44(4), 1312-1337.
Scoresby, R. B., Withers, M. C., & Ireland, R. D. (2021). The effect of CEO regulatory focus on changes to investments in R&D. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 38(4), 401-420.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 12
www: https://lms.uni-kiel.de/url/RepositoryEntry/5273845927
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