Executive Personality, Capability Cues, and Risk Taking

By Arijit Chatterjee, Donald C. Hambrick. 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Clinical Psychology, Safety Research

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Disentangling Risk and Change (2015, background): “Focusing on the market for CEOs is promising, as there is some research on risk taking and evidence that narcissistic CEOs may take risky actions because they overestimate their own abilities and thus underestimate the actual riskiness of a given course of action (Chatterjee and Hambrick, 2011).”
CEOs’ Regulatory Focus and Risk-Taking When Firms Perform Below and Above the Bar (2021, background): “…sum of three major forms of discretionary spending that are associated 1987Mount and Baer / CEO Regulatory Focus and Risk-Taking with uncertain outcomes and returns—namely, R&D expenditures, capital expenditures, and acquisition expenditures (Chatterjee & Hambrick, 2011; Sanders & Hambrick, 2007).”
The Impact of CEO Narcissism on Earnings Management (2018, unknown): “A leading personality trait that attracts widespread interest in leadership research is narcissism (Aktas et al., 2016; Amernic and Craig, 2010; Chatterjee and Hambrick, 2011; Duchon and Drake, 2009).”
Horizon problem and firm innovation: The influence of CEO career horizon, exploitation and exploration on breakthrough innovations (2017, background): “First, as a contribution to literature on CEO decision making (Chatterjee and Hambrick, 2011; Hayward et al., 2004; Seo et al., 2014), our study explains the mechanisms of how and why a CEO’s short career horizon influences firm innovations.”
CEO Narcissism and Accounting: A Picture of Profits (2014, background): “Previous research by Chatterjee and Hambrick (2007, 2011) shows that the narcissistic characteristics of CEOs are positively related to key financial variables such as performance and acquisition intensity.”
Me, myself, and I: influence of CEO narcissism on firms’ innovation strategy and the likelihood of product-harm crises (2017, methodology): “Second, narcissistic CEOs tend to have their name mentioned in the company’s press releases more often as an exercise of their inflated self-views, and as a way to gain attention of their external stakeholders (Chatterjee and Hambrick 2011).”
The Pre-Deal Phase of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, unknown): “For example, entrenched (Harford, Humphery-Jenner, & Powell, 2012), overconfident (Hayward & Hambrick, 1997; Malmendier & Tate, 2008), narcissistic (A. Chatterjee & Hambrick, 2011), and celebrity managers (Cho, Arthurs, Townsend, Miller, & Barden, 2016) have been found to pay higher premia.”