Consumer's personality traits have a strong influence on their shopping behavior. Hence, e-tailers, rather than merely targeting broad consumer segments, should tailor their shop to those personality traits. However, there is no guidance on how e-tailers can assess a consumer's personality...

This study investigates whether CEO Big Five personalities (i.e., agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness) are associated with stock price crash risk. The Big Five can influence managerial behaviors to withhold or release bad news. When the amount of withheld...

We analyze the interrelation between personality traits and German business students' propensity to select financial accounting, management accounting, tax accounting, or corporate finance as their major field of study, to seek a first job in one of these areas as well as their intention to...

A review of empirical studies related to organizational and personality- related factors and the likelihood of employees engaging in deviant behaviour at work indicates that less attention has been paid to study the effects of organisational formal control on workplace deviance. Drawing upon the...

Using data from a new survey of small and medium-sized enterprises in Myanmar, we analyse enterprise demand for formal credit and the extent to which they are constrained in the formal credit market. We account for firms self-selecting out of the credit market in Myanmar. Our data contain...

Current research aims to develop and test a conceptual framework that poses attention to individuals' personality as a potential predictor of their knowledge creation capability, considering the mediating effect of transformational leadership. According to an estimate, poor knowledge management...

We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the nonpecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...

This paper studies self-control in a nationally representative sample. Using the well-established Tangney scale to measure trait self-control, we find that people’s age as well as the political and economic institutions they are exposed to have an economically meaningful impact on their level...