This study examines the role of a chief executive officer's hubris, or exaggerated self-confidence,
in explaining the large size of some premiums paid for acquisitions. In a sample of 106 …

I use an organizational learning perspective to examine how the nature, performance and
timing of a firm's acquisition experience helps it to learn how to select the right acquisition. I …

This theoretical article introduces the construct of CEO celebrity in order to explain how the
tendency of journalists to attribute a firm's actions and outcomes to the volition of its CEO …

This paper develops a hubris theory of entrepreneurship to explain why so many new ventures
are created in the shadow of high venture failure rates: More confident actors are moved …

We extend the concept of celebrity from the individual to the firm level of analysis and argue
that the high level of public attention and the positive emotional responses that define …

This article outlines why highly confident entrepreneurs of focal ventures are better positioned
to start and succeed with another venture; and therefore why overconfidence in one's …

We study the resolution of conflicts of interest that arise when actors in professional firms
represent separate parties with competing interests, using models of power and reputation to …

In this study, we examine the determinants and consequences of impression management (IM)
support in communications between CEOs and journalists, whereby CEOs of other firms …

We use a mental accounting framework to study the conditions in which CEOs de‐commit to
poorly performing acquisitions and so become more likely to divest them. We test this …

This study examines the conditions in which professional firms use client engagements to get
clients to subsequently hire them. The central thesis is that professional firms derive power …