Watch me go big: CEO narcissism and corporate acquisitions
| Autor: | Lars Thomsen, Jesper N. Wulff, Mikkel Als, Tom Aabo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050208 finance
CEO narcissism Financial economics Strategy and Management 05 social sciences ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING Behavioral corporate finance Corporate acquisitions Accounting 0502 economics and business Narcissism medicine Irrational behavior Stock market Business medicine.symptom Proxy (statistics) 050203 business & management Finance |
| Zdroj: | Aabo, T, Als, M, Thomsen, L & Wulff, J N 2021, ' Watch me go big: CEO narcissism and corporate acquisitions ', Review of Behavioral Finance, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 465-485 . https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-05-2020-0091 |
| ISSN: | 1940-5979 |
| Popis: | PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of CEO narcissism in corporate acquisitions with a focus on frequency and size and furthermore to examine the subsequent stock market reaction.Design/methodology/approachThe authors investigate 751 acquisitions made by 158 UK nonfinancial firms and 202 CEOs in the 10-year period 2007–2016. The authors use the ratio of first-person singular pronouns to total first-person pronouns in CEO speech as the main proxy for CEO narcissism but the results are robust to the use of signature size and picture as alternative measures.FindingsThe authors find that increased CEO narcissism is associated with an increase in M&A expenditures, an increase in deal size and a decrease in deal frequency. Thus, the authors find that narcissistic CEOs favor size over frequency (“go big”). Furthermore, the authors find that the stock market reacts less favorably to acquisitions announced by firms run by narcissistic CEOs.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to upper echelon research by investigating the association between CEO narcissism and corporate decisions in a UK setting. More specifically, the paper contributes to the existing literature by investigating how CEO narcissism is associated with corporate acquisitions in terms of the size and frequency of deals and how such irrational behavior is penalized by the stock market. Previous literature has focused on the more broad association between CEO narcissism and M&A expenditures. |
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