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dc.contributor.authorArena, C
dc.contributor.authorMichelon, G
dc.contributor.authorTrojanowski, G
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-17T08:22:14Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-15
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines whether and to what extent CEO personal traits (hubris, in particular) affect firm environmental innovation. Using the overarching theoretical framework of upper-echelons theory, the paper builds on the insights from corporate strategy, innovation, and corporate social responsibility literatures. We also examine the moderating role of firm-specific features (e.g. organizational slack) and the external environment (e.g. market uncertainty) in this context. Based on a sample of UK companies operating in sensitive industries, we find that CEO hubris facilitates the engagement in green innovative projects. We also find that CEO hubris does not have a uniform effect: its effect on environmental innovation increases with the organizational slack, but weakens with the extent of environmental uncertainty. Our findings suggest that availability of resources per se is not enough to produce environmental innovation. Instead, it requires a stable external environment that enables the CEO with a hubristic personality to make a correct use of them.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 15 November 2017en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8551.12250
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/28954
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherWiley for British Academy of Managementen_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonPublisher policyen_GB
dc.rights© 2017 British Academy of Management
dc.subjectCEO hubrisen_GB
dc.subjectenvironmental innovationen_GB
dc.subjectorganizational slacken_GB
dc.subjectuncertaintyen_GB
dc.subjectupper echelonsen_GB
dc.titleBig egos can be green: A study of CEO hubris and environmental innovationen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn1045-3172
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalBritish Journal of Managementen_GB


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