TY - UNPB

T1 - The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

AU - Janke, Katharina Marie

AU - Propper, Carol

AU - Sadun, Raffaella

PY - 2018/3

Y1 - 2018/3

N2 - We investigate whether top managers affect the performance of large public sector organizations. As our case study we examine CEOs of English public hospitals, which are large, complex organizations with multi-million turnover. We study the impact of individual CEOs on a wide set of measures of hospital performance, intermediate operational outcomes and inputs. We adopt two econometric approaches: a parametric approach that exploits the movement of CEOs across different hospitals and a non-parametric difference-in-difference matching estimator. Overall, we find little evidence that individual CEOs have an impact on a large set of measures of hospital performance. This result is not due to the allocation of good performers to poorly performing hospitals.

AB - We investigate whether top managers affect the performance of large public sector organizations. As our case study we examine CEOs of English public hospitals, which are large, complex organizations with multi-million turnover. We study the impact of individual CEOs on a wide set of measures of hospital performance, intermediate operational outcomes and inputs. We adopt two econometric approaches: a parametric approach that exploits the movement of CEOs across different hospitals and a non-parametric difference-in-difference matching estimator. Overall, we find little evidence that individual CEOs have an impact on a large set of measures of hospital performance. This result is not due to the allocation of good performers to poorly performing hospitals.

KW - Management

KW - Performance

KW - Public Sector

KW - Measurement and Metrics

KW - Health Industry

M3 - Working paper

T3 - HBS Working Paper Series

BT - The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

PB - Harvard Business School

ER -