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CEO Overconfidence and Innovation
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Are the attitudes and beliefs of chief executive officers (CEOs) linked to their firms' innovative performance? This paper uses a measure of overconfidence, based on CEO stock-option exercise, to study the relationship between a CEO's “revealed beliefs” about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career concern model where CEOs innovate to provide evidence of their ability. The model predicts that overconfident CEOs, who underestimate the probability of failure, are more likely to pursue innovation, and that this effect is larger in more competitive industries. We test these predictions on a panel of large publicly traded firms for the years from 1980 to 1994. We find a robust positive association between overconfidence and citation-weighted patent counts in both cross-sectional and fixed-effect models. This effect is larger in more competitive industries. Our results suggest that overconfident CEOs are more likely to take their firms in a new technological direction. This paper was accepted by Kamalini Ramdas, entrepreneurship and innovation.
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- Authors
- Galasso, A., & Simcoe, T. S.
- Venue
- Management Science
- Published
- 2011-08
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1469-1484
- ISSN
- 0025-1909 (ISSN-L)
- 1526-5501
- OpenAlex
- W2138389645
- Cited by
- 867
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 61.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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