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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 262-279Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2348
Keywords
upper echelons; CEO narcissism; corporate social responsibility; organizational performance; strategic decisions
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This study builds on insights from both upper echelons and agency perspectives to examine the effects on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of CEO's narcissism. Drawing on prior theory about CEO narcissism, we argue that CSR can be a response to leaders' personal needs for attention and image reinforcement and hypothesize that CEO narcissism has positive effects on levels and profile of organizational CSR; additionally, CEO narcissism will reduce the effect of CSR on performance. We find support for our ideas with a sample of Fortune 500 CEOs, operationalizing CEO narcissism with a novel media-based measurement technique that uses third-party ratings of CEO characteristics with validated psychometric scales. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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