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Chief Executive Officer (CEO Duality)

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CEO duality; Dual leadership structure; Duality of power; Pure duality

Definition

Chief executive officer (CEO) duality refers to the relationship between the chairperson of the board of directors and the CEO of the company. More specifically, duality of power is defined as the union of the positions of board of directors chairperson and the CEO of the firm in the same person (Gove et al. 2017). This definition of CEO duality, accepted by a greater number of academics, is the so-called pure duality or dual leadership structure (Krause et al. 2014).

Key Issues

The separation of the roles of CEO and board chairperson is an issue that has generated great debate in the literature on corporate governance and one that is still unresolved (Chang et al. 2019; Daily and Dalton 2015; Wang et al. 2019). Although there is no unanimity in the recommendations of codes of good governance, in general they suggest an effective separation of the figures of CEO and board chairperson, and none...

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

    Rebeca García-Ramos & Belén Díaz Díaz

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  1. London Metropolitan University, Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law London Metropolitan University, London, UK

    Samuel Idowu

  2. Cologne Business School, Ingolstadt, Germany

    René Schmidpeter

  3. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Nicholas Capaldi

  4. International Training Centre of the IL, International Labor Organization, Turin, Italy

    Liangrong Zu

  5. Department of Economics, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy

    Mara Del Baldo

  6. Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal

    Rute Abreu

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García-Ramos, R., Díaz Díaz, B. (2020). Chief Executive Officer (CEO Duality). In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_489-1

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