CIO survival and the composition of the top management team

Gregory S. Dawson, Robert J. Kauffman

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Abstract

We explore empirical regularities of CiO suruiuability in public and private organizations using CiO job tenure durations spanning 1994 to 2009 for 1,594 executives. We employ the Kaplan-Meier estimator from event history analysis to compute survivor functionsfor CEOs, COOs, CFOs and CiOs. We make log rank comparisons of job tenure durations to make inferences within/across executive titles, and between public and private sector groups. The results suggest that: CiOs have shorter survival durations than CEOs and COOs, comparable to CFOs; private sector CiOs have longer durations than public sector CiOs; CiO membership in the top management team increases survivability; female CiOs stay a shorter time than males; and women on the top management team diminish CiO tenures overall. From an additional executive arrival and departure timeproximify analysis, we find that only a quarter of CiOs are members of the top management team, but membership lengthens tenure.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011
Pages1549-1564
Number of pages16
StatePublished - 2011
Event32nd International Conference on Information System 2011, ICIS 2011 - Shanghai, China
Duration: Dec 4 2011Dec 7 2011

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011
Volume2

Other

Other32nd International Conference on Information System 2011, ICIS 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period12/4/1112/7/11

Keywords

  • Chief information officer (CIO)
  • Empirical research
  • Event history methods
  • Job tenure
  • Kaplan-meier estimator
  • Leadership
  • Private sector
  • Proximity analysis
  • Public sector
  • Top management team

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems

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