In Pursuit of Greatness: CEO Narcissism, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Firm Performance Variance

By W. Wales, Pankaj C. Patel, G. Lumpkin. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Clinical Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation (2015, background): “EO fulfills this role (Wales et al. 2013).”
Reconceptualizing entrepreneurial orientation (2015, background): “For example, Wales, Patel, and Lumpkin (2013) posit that CEO narcissism may increase a strategic decision maker’s risk-taking proclivities, although a firm’s compensation structure (March and Shapira, 1987), for example, might moderate this relationship.”
Upsides to Dark and Downsides to Bright Personality: A Multidomain Review and Future Research Agenda (2018, background): “Wales et al. (2013) found that CEO narcissism both positively related to EO and mediated the relationship between EO and performance variation.”
“See You in Court”: How CEO narcissism increases firms' vulnerability to lawsuits (2017, background): “…studies by focusing on outcomes that are potentially more consequential and long-lasting than how well an organization performs financially over a shorter time frame, which has been the rather limited focus of many studies of CEO narcissism (e.g., Chatterjee &Hambrick, 2007; Wales et al., 2013).”
ADHD-like behavior and entrepreneurial intentions (2013, background): “tions, activity or orientation) and continuous scores on other (initial) clinical constructs such as narcissism (Wales et al. 2013; Mathieu and St-Jean 2013),”
The Right People in the Wrong Places: The Paradox of Entrepreneurial Entry and Successful Opportunity Realization (2015, background): “First, given that not all entrepreneurial leaders exhibit overconfidence and narcissism (cf. Forbes, 2005; Grijalva & Harms, 2013; Wales et al., 2013), the variable presence of thesequalities across individuals helps to inform basic questions of entrepreneurial entry, affecting not only broader entr”
Making CEO Narcissism Research Great: A Review and Meta-Analysis of CEO Narcissism (2019, neutral): “Indeed, Wales et al. (2013) provided evidence that narcissism and entrepreneurial orientation are correlated.”
CEO Narcissism, Risk-Taking, and Resilience: An Empirical Analysis in U.S. Commercial Banks (2019, background): “Second, narcissists’ excessive feeling of self-assurance and superiority (Emmons, 1987) leads to positively biased expectations that their decisions will have a positive outcome (Chatterjee & Hambrick, 2011; Gerstner et al., 2013; Wales et al., 2013).”
Beyond narrative disclosure tone: The upper echelons theory perspective (2020, background): “In the last decade, there was a growing interest to study the effect of narcissistic CEOs in management, leadership and organisational studies as one of the CEO features (Wales, Patel and Lumpkin, 2013).”