Finance Department, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Department of Finance and Business Economics, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2020 Jun 30;15(6):e0234987. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234987. eCollection 2020.
We investigate the link between birth order and the career outcome of becoming Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company. CEOs are more likely to be the first-born, i.e., oldest, child of their family relative to what one would expect if birth order did not matter for career outcomes. Both male and female CEOs are more likely to be first-born. However, the first-born advantage seems to largely reflect the absence of an older brother, but not of an older sister. These results are more pronounced for family firms, where traditionally the oldest child is appointed to run the family business, but also hold for non-family firms.
我们研究了出生顺序与成为公司首席执行官（CEO）这一职业结果之间的联系。与出生顺序对职业结果不重要的情况下相比，CEO 更有可能是家庭中排行第一的孩子，即最年长的孩子。男性和女性 CEO 都更有可能是长子。然而，长子优势在很大程度上似乎反映了没有年长的哥哥，而不是没有年长的姐姐。这些结果在家族企业中更为明显，传统上，家族企业的长子被任命来经营家族企业，但在非家族企业中也同样适用。
