RT Article
T1 Linguistic markers of CEO hubris
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 167
IS 4
SP 687
OP 705
A1 Akstinaite, Vita
A1 Robinson, Graham
A1 Sadler-Smith, Eugene
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1741694752
AB This article explores the link between CEOs’ language and hubristic leadership. It is based on the precepts that leaders’ linguistic utterances provide insights into their personality and behaviours; hubris is associated with unethical and potentially destructive leadership behaviours; if it is possible to identify linguistic markers of CEO hubris then these could serve as early warnings sign and help to mitigate the associated risks. Using computational linguistics, we analysed spoken utterances from a sample of hubristic CEOs and compared them with non-hubristic CEOs. We found that hubristic CEOs’ linguistic utterances show systematic and consistent differences from the linguistic utterances of non-hubristic CEOs. Demonstrating how hubristic leadership manifests in CEO language contributes to wider research regarding the diagnosis and prevention of the unethical and potentially destructive effects of hubristic leadership. This research contributes to the wider study of hubris and unethical leadership by applying a novel method for identifying linguistic markers and offers a way of militating against the risk of unethical and destructive CEO behaviours induced or aggravated by hubristic leadership.
K1 CEOs
K1 Computational linguistics
K1 Ethical Leadership
K1 Hubris
K1 Hubris syndrome
K1 Language
K1 Leadership
K1 Linguistic markers
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-019-04183-y