The Effects of CEO Tenure on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance

There is a burgeoning body of research exploring entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and its relationship to firm performance, but what influences EO, the proverbial man behind the curtain, still eludes us. In this study, I propose that CEO tenure is a strong influencer of EO and building on the CEO tenure and EO work of Boling, Pieper, and Covin (2016) and the archival proxy measures of EO used by Miller and Le Breton-Miller (2011), I explore the relationships among CEO tenure, EO, and firm performance.