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Previous research has established that certain personality traits represent predictors of start-up activity. We argue that similar cognitive processes that affect entrepreneurship also play a role in firm-level innovativeness. For example, open-ness to novelty can be regarded as a key component...
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Is there a relationship between leaders’ personality traits and organizational commitment among their associates? • A quantitative research design tested the relationship between leaders’ personality traits and organizational commitment • Apparel and Consumer Packaged Goods organizations...
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Teleworking has, today, become a necessity for many organizations, so effective virtual team management is critical. This study analyzes the influence of the personality traits of virtual team workers on team efficiency. To do so we examine the effects of subordinates’ personalities on the...
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This study empirically investigates bank risk taking from a behavioral perspective. More specifically, we analyze the impact of an overconfident CEO, defined as one who has systematically upward biased beliefs about the returns of his investment projects, on bank performance and risk taking....
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One out of every five chief executives is a psychopath who is consumed with playing a game of corporate accomplishment, as he takes inhumane pleasure in violating moral code to ensure his dominance and personal gain over others in the workplace. In fact, there are a growing number of “triadic...
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This study investigates whether CEO Big Five personalities (i.e., agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness) are associated with stock price crash risk. The Big Five can influence managerial behaviors to withhold or release bad news. When the amount of withheld...
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We examine the effects of CEO big five personalities (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) on their annual compensation. We hand-collect the S&P 1500 CEO tweets and use IBM personality insights to measure CEO personality. CEOs with high ratings of...
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Combining studies on CEO personality traits and real options theory, we propose that the firm’s strategic flexibility can be improved by CEO openness to experience but worsened by CEO conscientiousness and neuroticism. We construct the degree of strategic flexibility by exploring the firm’s...
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Ethical predispositions are foundational to how an individual’s reason. They shape both moral awareness and moral decisions. Within organizations, they influence perceptions of justice and administrative policies. Descriptions of ethical predispositions are broadly based around two frameworks:...
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