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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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Session: 25708: What Happens Around Leadership Transitions? CEO Succession, Executive Profiles, and CEO Evaluations

14003: It’s Who You Are: Explaining the Antecedents of New CEOs Psychological Profiles (session 25708)

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

12:00 - 13:30 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B2-m5

Session Type: Paper Session
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/pM6DMj

Author(s)

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Tessa Recendes

Penn State Smeal College of Business, United States
FA

Federico Aime

Oklahoma State U., United States
CG

Carlos Garcini

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OP

Oleg V. Petrenko

University of Oklahoma, United States
YS

Ying Shi

Penn State Smeal College of Business, United States

Given the implications that CEO psychological traits have for their organizations, we examine those characteristics as outcomes of the new CEO selection process. At the core of our theory is the realization that organizations may select CEO types based on particular profiles of characteristics that respond to their governance, competitive, or performance needs. We first develop a typology of CEO psychological profiles (the Independent Hero, the Positive Leader, the Classic Administrator, and the Self-centered Manager) by cluster analyzing a sample of 250 S&P 500 CEOs for which relevant psychological traits were assessed with valid scales utilizing a videometric approach. Then we hypothesize and find that firm size, industry dynamics, and board features, significantly affect the psychological profiles or types of the individuals selected as CEO.

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