Scaling the Ivory Tower

Abstract

Abstract In the past 25 years, the study of CEO personality has seen a surge of interest among both academic researchers and practitioners. Although the extant literature has documented that CEO personality traits are important predictors of organizational outcomes, the field has encountered challenges in the areas of theorizing and assessment. The current chapter provides an overview of the existing research on CEO personality—specifically examining the literature on dark personality traits, the Five Factor and HEXACO models of personality, and a number of alternative traits currently of interest to scholars—and its impact on organizational outcomes, highlighting key studies published across a number of organizational disciplines.