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CEO personality and language use in CSR reporting
Business Ethics: A European Review ( IF 5.056 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 , DOI: 10.1111/beer.12347
Fereshteh Mahmoudian 1 , Jamal A. Nazari 1 , Irene M. Gordon 1 , Karel Hrazdil 1
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We explore the relationship between chief executive officer (CEO) personality traits and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting. Upper echelons theory indicates that the values, experiences, and personalities of top organizational managers influence their organization's strategic decisions and effectiveness. We utilize IBM Watson Personality Insights software to infer CEOs’ personality traits based on their responses to questions raised by analysts during year-end conference calls; we obtain CEOs’ Big Five personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—from which we compute a measure of their risk tolerance. Using a longitudinal dataset of Standard and Poor's 500 firms for 2008–2015, we document that high CEO risk tolerance is related to lower CSR report readability and smaller CSR disclosure volume. This finding indicates that executives who are comfortable with greater risk are more willing to supply stakeholders with reports that are shorter and require greater effort to understand. Exploration of the association between CEO Big Five personality traits and CSR report readability and disclosure volume allows key stakeholders to better comprehend CSR disclosures and connotations thereof. Overall, our results contribute to the debate on how CEO personality traits affect organizations’ CSR disclosure reporting strategies, and support upper echelons theory in the CSR setting.

中文翻译:

CEO 个性和语言在企业社会责任报告中的使用

我们探讨了首席执行官 (CEO) 个性特征与企业社会责任 (CSR) 报告之间的关系。高层理论表明,组织高层管理者的价值观、经验和个性会影响组织的战略决策和有效性。我们利用 IBM Watson Personality Insights 软件,根据 CEO 在年终电话会议期间对分析师提出的问题的回答来推断他们的性格特征;我们获得 CEO 的大五人格特质——开放性、尽责性、外向性、随和性和神经质——从中我们可以计算出他们的风险承受能力。使用 2008-2015 年标准普尔 500 家公司的纵向数据集,我们记录了高 CEO 风险承受能力与较低的 CSR 报告可读性和较小的 CSR 披露量有关。这一发现表明,对更大风险感到满意的高管更愿意向利益相关者提供更短、需要更多努力才能理解的报告。探索CEO大五人格特质与企业社会责任报告可读性和披露量之间的关联,可以让关键利益相关者更好地理解企业社会责任披露及其内涵。总的来说,我们的结果有助于关于 CEO 人格特质如何影响组织的 CSR 披露报告策略的辩论,并支持 CSR 环境中的高层理论。这一发现表明,对更大风险感到满意的高管更愿意向利益相关者提供更短、需要更多努力才能理解的报告。探索CEO大五人格特质与企业社会责任报告可读性和披露量之间的关联,可以让关键利益相关者更好地理解企业社会责任披露及其内涵。总的来说,我们的结果有助于关于 CEO 人格特质如何影响组织的 CSR 披露报告策略的辩论,并支持 CSR 环境中的高层理论。这一发现表明,对更大风险感到满意的高管更愿意向利益相关者提供更短、需要更多努力才能理解的报告。探索CEO大五人格特质与企业社会责任报告可读性和披露量之间的关联,可以让关键利益相关者更好地理解企业社会责任披露及其内涵。总的来说,我们的结果有助于关于 CEO 人格特质如何影响组织的 CSR 披露报告策略的辩论,并支持 CSR 环境中的高层理论。
更新日期:2021-06-14
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