MANAGING STRATEGIC CHANGE: THE DUALITY OF CEO PERSONALITY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Herrmann, Pol; Nadkarni, Sucheta
• 署名单位: Iowa State University; Drexel University
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.2156
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1318-1342
• 关键词: CEO personality; STRATEGIC CHANGE; strategic leadership; five factor model

摘要

Using the five factor model (FFM) of personality, we delineate two distinct roles of CEO personality in managing strategic change: initiating strategic change and determining the performance effects of strategic change implementation. Based on data from 120 smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ecuador, we found that some FFM traits of CEOs influenced initiation only (extraversion and openness), others similarly influenced initiation and performance effects of implementation (emotional stability and agreeableness), and still others had opposing effects on initiation and effective implementation (conscientiousness). These results point to a dual role of CEO FFM of personality in managing strategic change, and they indicate the differences in CEO FFM traits needed to initiate strategic change and those needed to improve the performance effects of strategic change implementation. Copyright (C) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.