 IntroductionRebekka Sputtek Chapter 1 in Opening the Black Box, 2012, pp 1-13 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This dissertation aims at contributing to explaining how an individual executive's personality and emotional traits influence their decision making and leadership behavior. Understanding executive decision making and leadership behavior is crucial to understanding processes leading to firm performance (Bass, Avolio, Jung, & Berson, 2003; Miller, 2008; Simsek, Heavey, & Veiga, 2010; Yammarino, Spangler, & Bass, 1993). Upper echelons theory finds that executives are influenced by their personalities when making strategic decisions, and understanding which aspects of their personalities support decision making and leadership behavior beneficial to firm performance is valuable but still lacking (Bass & Steidlmeier, 1999; Hambrick, 2007; Hiller & Hambrick, 2005). This may be due to unanswered questions in three distinct areas: First, research on the personality of executives has mainly considered separate aspects of personality, despite interaction effects between personality variables may distinctively change the nature of a given personality trait's influence (Chatterjee & Hambrick, 2007; Simsek et al., 2010). Keywords: Firm Performance; Strategic Decision; Transformational Leadership; Leadership Behavior; Transactional Leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-8349-3925-8_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-8349-3925-8_1 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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