Brennan, Niamh M.; Conroy, John P. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 26 (2013) February, pp. 172-195
shareholders of a single bank over ten years for evidence of CEO personality traits, including narcissism (a contributor to hubris …), hubris, overconfidence and CEO-attribution. Following predictions that hubris increases the longer individuals occupy … speculation that the banking crisis of 2008 was partly caused by CEO hubris, this paper seeks to analyse the CEO letters to …