Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

CEOs’ individual psychology influences firm responses to stakeholder resistance, shaping future strategic actions. • CEOs respond differently to negative press coverage of acquisitions based on their tendency to focus on the past or the future - CEOs with a strong past focus spend less on future acquisitions after negative accounts. • CEOs respond more consistently to investor reactions to acquisition announcements, regardless of temporal focus.

Publication Date

2019

Source

Gamache, D. L. & McNamara, G. (in press). Responding to bad press: How CEO temporal focus influences the sensitivity to negative media coverage of acquisitions. Academy of Management Journal. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2017.0526

Disciplines

Business

Copyright

© 2019, University of South Carolina

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Business Commons

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