Combining studies on CEO personality traits and real options theory, we propose that the firm’s strategic flexibility can be improved by CEO openness to experience but worsened by CEO conscientiousness and neuroticism. We construct the degree of strategic flexibility by exploring the firm’s...

Universities are tasked with the job of improving students' talents in a broad number of fields; one of these fields is preparing students for their future academic efforts. The pupils' histories, the locations of their houses, the resources they access possible to them, their temperaments, and...

Little is known about the personality and cognitive traits that shape adolescents’ sensitivity to social norms. Further, few studies have harnessed novel empirical tools to elicit sensitivity to social norms among adolescent populations. This paper examines the association between sensitivity...

This study investigated the effect of self-monitoring on emotional labor strategies (surface acting and deep acting) and the moderating role of gender in development. In anchoring the relationship between self-monitoring and emotional labor, the conservation of resources theory was used, while...

Inherent socioeconomic characteristics and personality traits can directly affect an individual's financial satisfaction. There is limited research on the role of financial behavior as a mediating variable for the influence of these two factors on financial satisfaction. It is important to know...

Financial distress is not only experienced by people with no income, but also those with a large income. This research aims to examine the effect of individual characteristics and a neurotic personality on personal financial difficulties with financial behaviour as an intervening variable. The...

We use credit report data to study consumer financial distress in America. We show there are large, persistent disparities in financial distress across regions. To understand these patterns, we conduct a “movers” analysis. For collections and default, there is only weak convergence following...

Does personality matter? Is an individual who is open to experience more or less likely to become an entrepreneur? Is it better to score low or high in agreeableness for surviving as an entrepreneur? To the extent that personality captures one part of entrepreneurial abilities, which are usually...