Amira Babayeva
Undergraduate student in business administration · ADA University
Baku, Azerbaijan
Biography
Amira Babayeca is a third-year undergraduate student of business administration at ADA University in Baku, Azerbaijan, with interests in marketing and consulting. Her research examines the effect of executive turnover on firm performance, through a case study and a review of the literature. She has taken part in a mentorship programme at Deloitte and has volunteered at the ADA University Summer Camp.
Publications with ICRR
This study explores how CEO turnover can affect short-term firm performance. Using a cross- sectional analysis, performance was measured using changes in return on assets (ROA), while CEO turnover is taken as a dummy variable. The study includes descriptive statistics, visual analysis, t-tests, correlation analysis, and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression. Results show that firm performance differs across the sample and includes some extreme values. At the initial stage, companies that have had a change of CEO tend to show worse results. This observation is supported by the t-test results, which reveal a statistically significant difference in average performance between firms with and without CEO turnover. However, once other important factors, such as firm size, leverage, and industry type, are considered in the regression analysis, the effect of CEO turnover is no longer statistically significant. Additional diagnostic and robustness tests confirm stability of regression results. Overall, the findings suggest that CEO turnover does not have a significant impact on firm performance in the short run.