TY - JOUR
T1 - Driving Digital Transformation
T2 - 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2024
AU - Feng, Ying
AU - Sidhu, Jatinder S.
AU - Volberda, Henk W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 Academy of Management. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This article examines the impact of CEO founder status on firm digital transformation performance and the contingencies that influence this relationship. Drawing on a panel dataset encompassing all Chinese listed companies engaged in online business between 2014 and 2019, the findings indicate that companies led by founder CEOs are more likely to achieve superior digital transformation outcomes compared to those led by non-founder CEOs. Moreover, the analysis suggests that the positive influence of founder CEOs on digital transformation can be weakened by a larger board and supervisory board. In contrast, when founder CEOs possess prior experience in founding other companies, their positive impact on the firm's digital transformation performance is likely to be strengthened.
AB - This article examines the impact of CEO founder status on firm digital transformation performance and the contingencies that influence this relationship. Drawing on a panel dataset encompassing all Chinese listed companies engaged in online business between 2014 and 2019, the findings indicate that companies led by founder CEOs are more likely to achieve superior digital transformation outcomes compared to those led by non-founder CEOs. Moreover, the analysis suggests that the positive influence of founder CEOs on digital transformation can be weakened by a larger board and supervisory board. In contrast, when founder CEOs possess prior experience in founding other companies, their positive impact on the firm's digital transformation performance is likely to be strengthened.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85208184692&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5465/AMPROC.2024.250bp
DO - 10.5465/AMPROC.2024.250bp
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85208184692
SN - 0065-0668
VL - 2024
JO - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
IS - 1
Y2 - 9 August 2024 through 13 August 2024
ER -
