Research Day in Management of Technology

The Doctoral Program in Management of Technology is organizing a research day where the PhD students of the program will present their current work.
Prof. Zeki Simsek (Clemson University) will give a keynote address on "The Influence of CEO Core Self-Evaluations on Firm Performance".
 
ABSTRACT
 
Despite growing interest in the role of executive confidence in firm outcomes, the question of whether and under what conditions a CEO’s level of core self-evaluations has an influence on firm performance remains unanswered. We argue that firms should benefit from having CEOs with high core self-evaluation (CSE), but only to the extent to which they have both the opportunity and the means to enact the behavioral manifestations of their level of CSE.  We then test the model using a longitudinal, mixed-methods design and dataset. Following a survey of CEOs in 2005, we tracked the performance of 172 firms across macroeconomic shifts in the Irish economy from 2006 through 2010. The findings show that CEO CSE is positively associated with firm performance under conditions of macroeconomic buoyancy and abundant slack, but not under conditions of the opportunity and resource scarcity.