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Session 309

Looking Good and Sounding Better: Impression Management by CEOs

Track X	Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Track O	Time: 08:00 – 09:15
Paper	Room: Governor's Square 9

Session Chair:

Daniel Zyung, Rice University

Title: Beautiful is Better: CEO Attractiveness and Securities Fraud

Authors

Matt Hersel, Auburn University
Brian Connelly, Auburn University

Abstract: Choosing a CEO is one of the most strategic decisions firms make. Scholars have found that markets react positively to attractive CEOs, and that attractive CEOs are associated with outcomes such as high compensation and invitations to join boards. Less research, however, considers how attractiveness might be related to negative organizational outcomes. Using arguments from expectancy theory and strain theory, we hypothesize and find that attractive CEOs are less likely to engage in securities fraud than their less attractive counterparts. We also introduce two key boundary conditions wherein this relationship does not hold. We, of course, do not recommend making hiring decisions based on attractiveness, but we do discuss why this phenomenon is occurring and what it could mean for boards, shareholders, managers, and policymakers.

Title: It’s Not What You Say, But How You Say It: How CEO Dominance Influences Pay

Authors

Waqas Haque, University of Cambridge
Krishnan Nair, Erasmus University-Rotterdam

Abstract: Socio-political and psychological accounts of executive compensation have become prominent in recent years. However, there has been little research on how CEO personality influences CEO pay. We introduce CEO dominance as a stable personality trait that increases the CEO's social influence over the board. Using insights from the evolutionary psychology literature, we argue that more dominant CEOs are viewed as better leaders, especially during times of crisis. This translates into higher compensation for dominant CEOs. CEO dominance relative to the chairman will also increase the CEO's compensation, especially when the chairman sits on the compensation committee. We test our hypotheses using a sample of FTSE100 firms from 2004 to 2013 using a hierarchical, nested panel model.

Title: Managerial Vocal Attractiveness: Creating Value During Conference Calls

Authors

Vivien Jancenelle, Cleveland State University
Susan Storrud-Barnes, Cleveland State University
Richard Reed, Cleveland State University

Abstract: In this proposal, we follow the strategy research tradition of drawing on valuable insights from other disciplines and use a vocal attractiveness construct to examine the impact of managerial vocal attractiveness on investor reactions to earnings-per-share surprises in conference calls. Using advanced speech-analysis software, we analyze the voices of CEOs and top managers in a sample of 114 conference calls and find that the relationship between earnings surprises and market performance is moderated positively by managerial vocal attractiveness. Our findings illustrate the importance of vocal attractiveness in strategic leadership.

Title: The Romance of Leadership and CEO Dismissal

Authors

Sun Hyun Park, Seoul National University
Nandini Rajagopalan, University of Southern California

Abstract: Studies showed that leadership efficacy is often determined by the result of social construction rather than objective performance judgment. However, few studies examined how the target of this collective leadership attribution process, i.e. the organizational leader herself, may participate in the leadership image construction and how this intervention can influence the prospect of organizational leadership. We analyze the source quotation patterns and performance attribution contents in journalist articles to theorize that upon journalist invitation, high status corporate-elite CEOs are more likely to provide external attributions of low firm performance and the CEO’s external attribution of low firm performance decreases the likelihood of the CEO’s dismissal. We also examine the moderating effect of board independence for this CEO self-serving performance attribution on dismissal.

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