Word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an increasingly important role in shaping consumers’ behavior and preferences as users’ opinions and choices are frequently shared in social media. In this paper, we examine whether latent personality traits of online users accentuate or attenuate the effectiveness...

Our goal in this study was to investigate antecedents to formation of leadership self‐efficacy (LSE) for men versus women. We used a relative importance analysis, which allows more precise identification of important predictors without concern of multicollinearity effects on R2. Using a sample...

Objective - This empirical study aims to examine the role of entrepreneurial alertness as a mediator to personality traits, prior knowledge and social capital in influencing the potential of entrepreneurial intention. Methodology/Technique - A total of 212 questionnaires were personally...

Entrepreneurship education has been considered one of the key solutions to strengthen the entrepreneurial attitudes. However, the elements that influence the individual’s determination to make a start-up are not well-defined. This study attempts to empirically examine the influence of both...

In explaining the prevalence of the overconfident belief that one is better than others, prior work has focused on the motive to maintain high self‐esteem, abetted by biases in attention, memory, and cognition. An additional possibility is that overconfidence enhances the person’s social...

What roles do CEOs play in firm performance? To address this question, the management field has accumulated a substantial amount of research over the past three decades built on upper echelons theory (UET), which posits that CEO characteristics manifest in firm strategic actions and, in this...

This study empirically investigates bank risk taking from a behavioral perspective. More specifically, we analyze the impact of an overconfident CEO, defined as one who has systematically upward biased beliefs about the returns of his investment projects, on bank performance and risk taking....

Personality is an important omitted variable in much of the Political Economy literature. While material self-interest is the base of most approaches to redistribution (first affecting preferences and then politics and policy), there is a paucity of research on how personality affects support...

This paper analyzes private retirement savings, the amount for German individuals and how these savings are influenced by personality traits. With the 2002 to 2009 cross section of the Socio-Economic Panel for Germany (SOEP), it is investigated how the Big-Five and the Locus of Control influence...