Dear AOM community,
Over the past decade, CEO research has increasingly drawn from psychology to establish a micro-foundation for understanding CEO decision-making and leadership styles. This interdisciplinary body of work has had a significant impact, gaining visibility in academic journals, the popular press, and attracting scholars from diverse fields to contribute to the discourse.
I am excited to be organizing a PDW at the upcoming AOM in Copenhagen titled "CEO Psychological Characteristics: When and How Do They Matter?". The PDW aims to reflect on the expansive developments in this field and and chart its future trajectory across three critical dimensions – organizational decision-making, novel "person-variables" in organization, and methodological advances using innovative tools such as Large Language Models.
Date and Time: July 26, Saturday, 14:00 - 15:30
Where: Bella Center in Hall B – B4 – m10
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/Rxzbzz
We are excited to have Don Hambrick as our discussant. We will have the following five panelists:
Georg Wernicke (HEC Paris) will discuss how CEOs' military backgrounds and other functional experiences can impact organizational misconduct
Oleg Petrenko (University of Oklahoma) will discuss the organizational impact of negative psychological traits such as narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.
Joseph Harrison (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) will discuss recent advancements in the use of large language models (LLMs) to measure CEOs' psychological traits, offering novel approaches to test theory on these foundational constructs.
Michael Mannor (U. of Notre Dame) will discuss how differences in executive identity and psychological motivations shape how they cognitively respond to the intended coercive pressures of corporate governance.
Daniel Keum (Columbia Business School) will discuss how CEO prosociality - specifically concern for employee wellbeing – can slow downsizing and firm adaptation to industry disruptions.
I look forward to having you attend our session!
Best,
Nandil
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Nandil Bhatia
PhD Candidate in Management, Columbia Business School
nb3029@columbia.edu
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Nandil Bhatia
Columbia Business School
New York NY
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