Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

More extraverted CEOs are more likely to engage in mergers and acquisitions than less extraverted CEOs. • More extraverted CEOs are more likely to engage in larger mergers and acquisitions than less extraverted CEOs. • Some of these effects can be explained because extraverted CEOs are more likely to participate on a larger number of external boards than are less extraverted CEOs.

Publication Date

2018

Source

Malhotra, S, Reus, T.H., Zhu, PC, & Roelofsen, E.M. (2018). The acquisitive nature of extraverted CEOs. Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol 63(2): 370-408.

Disciplines

Business

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