Management
Social, behavioral, and cognitive influences on upper echelons during strategy process: A literature review. (2015)
“…exceedingly active research on relations between CEOs and their management teams has developed a plethora of constructs and empirical findings. Scholars may now wish to turn to understanding and comparing...
Written by: Bromiley, P., & Rau, D.
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Double trouble: sibling rivalry and twin organizations in the 2008 credit crisis. (2014)
“… the closeness of organizational identities in twin organizations may lead to increased rivalry, narcissism and a tendency for greater risk-taking and vulnerability. Prof Mark Stein, Chair in Leadership and...
Written by: Stein, Mark.
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When more is not enough: Executive greed and its influence on shareholder wealth. (2014)
"new research examines the effects of greed on shareholder wealth and looks at whether various contextual factors, like a strong board of directors, CEO tenure and discretion make the situation...
Written by: Haynes, K.T. et a;.
Read moreThe bright and dark side of altruism: Demographic, personality traits, and disorders associated with altruism. (2014)
“Interpersonal Sensitivity (Agreeableness) and Inquisitiveness (Openness) correlated most strongly with altruism. Two darkside disorders (Excitable, Reserved) correlated negatively but two others (Imaginative and Dutiful) correlated positively.” Adrian Furnham & Luke Treglown, University College...
Written by: Furnham, A., Treglown, L., Hyde, G., & Trickey, G.
Read moreBusiness culture and dishonesty in the banking industry. (2014)
“…in a game designed to reveal dishonest behaviour, employees of a large international bank behaved as honestly as the rest of us. But in tests mimicking the competitive nature of...
Written by: Cohn, A., Fehr, E. & Maréchal, M. A.
Read moreVirtue, hubris and risk culture. (2014)
“Risk culture should be reimagined as a matter of integrity and a steadfast opposition to hubris and narcissistic traits.” Anthony Asher, Victoria Clout and Tracy Wilcox Paper presented to the...
Written by: Asher, Anthony ; Clout, Victoria; & Wilcox, Tracy.
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The 1920 Farrow’s Bank failure: a case of managerial hubris? (2014)
"Thomas Farrow had …. become afflicted by managerial hubris. This was reflected most clearly in the fact that he increasingly came to view himself as being somehow above and beyond...
Written by: Hollow, Matthew.
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Looking for hubris but finding realism in company annual report CEO letters to shareholders: an analysis using DICTION software (2014)
"Language with statistically significantly high scores for ‘realism’ and ‘human interest’ is not a distinctive marker of CEO hubris, but rather, is a generic feature of language use in letters...
Written by: Amernic, J. & Craig R.
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Reckless endangerment: The failure of HBOS. (2014)
"..looks at the failure of HBOS using a behavioural finance perspective, in particular considering the cognitive biases (such as over-confidence and groupthink) that may have led directors to underestimate the...
Written by: McConnell, Patrick.
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Exploring signs of hubris in CEO language (2014). Can software identify hubristic CEO-speak?
"Reports on the authors' study into whether DICTION computer-assisted text analysis software could help identify hubristic language from Chief Executive Officers. The results, although mixed, show some promise Amernic, J:...
Written by: Amernic, J & Craig R.
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