The Effect of Misalignment of CEO Personality and Corporate Governance Structures on Firm Performance

We utilize the IBM Watson Personality Insights service to analyze CEOs’ verbal communication during conference calls to infer CEOs’ Big Five personality traits, which we employ to estimate their risk tolerance levels. We then explore whether the misalignment of CEO risk tolerance and governance stru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Irene M. Gordon, Karel Hrazdil, Johnny Jermias, Xin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
Series:Journal of Risk and Financial Management
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/14/8/375