جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « ceo narcissism » در نشریات گروه « حسابداری »

One of the basic criteria for making decisions in the stock market is stock returns. Stock returns alone have informational content and are used by most actual and potential investors in financial analysis and forecasting. Currently, investors can predict stock returns to some extent by creating a link between stock returns and other financial and non-financial information. Accordingly, the purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of CEO narcissism on stock returns. For this purpose, the data related to the companies accepted in the Tehran Stock Exchange for the ten-year period between 1391 and 1400 were extracted for 105 companies and the statistical software Eviews 8 was used. The current research is an applied research from the aspect of the result. After the statistical analysis, the results of the research hypotheses indicate that CEO narcissism has a positive and significant effect on stock returns. This shows that the behavior of narcissistic managers leads to providing favorable statements to owners and shareholders in order to increase rewards and also gain more satisfaction.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of CEO narcissism on the R&D Expenditures. For this purpose, the data related to the companies accepted in the Tehran Stock Exchange for the ten-year period between 1391 and 1400 were extracted for 80 companies and the statistical software Eviews 8 was used. The current research is applied research; from the perspective of the research result, it is applied research. After the statistical analysis, the results of the research hypotheses indicate that CEO narcissism has a positive and significant effect on R&D Expenditures. The findings of this study enrich and expand the theory of CEO narcissism. It also has important practical implications for R&D investment decisions and the selection of managers in companies.

The present study examines the effect of corporate governance on ceo narcissism in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. In this research, three variables of management tenure, duality of management duties and institutional shareholders have been selected as corporate governance criteria. In this research, the institutional shareholders, the duality of management duties and the narcissism of managers have been identified with values of zero and one; Management tenure is also measured based on the number of years of continuous management activity. This research is a descriptive-correlation study based on composite data analysis. 120 companies admitted to the stock exchange during the period of 2017-1401 have been selected as samples. Based on this, management tenure and the duality of management duties have a positive and significant effect on managers' narcissism; While institutional shareholders have a negative and significant effect on ceo narcissism.

The results of previous research have shown that the use of short-term debts can ultimately cause unfavorable financial performance of the company in the long term. Behavioral finance theories also state that in the decision-making of managers and investors, in addition to information, a series of viewpoints and psychological factors also influence their decisions. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of CEO narcissism on the maturity structure of debts.

Using the data of 85 companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange, in the period of 2018 to 2022, the hypotheses were tested using multiple regression.

Findings:

 After statistical analysis, the results of the research hypotheses indicate that CEO narcissism has a positive and significant effect on the maturity structure of debts. In this research, two indicators of managers' bonus ratio and the size of CEO signatures were used to measure CEO narcissism.

Originality: 

The results of research hypotheses indicate that CEO narcissism has a positive and significant effect on debt maturity structure. This means that with the increase of narcissism of managers, the use of short-term debt increases. Narcissistic managers try to match the asset structure and the debt maturity structure in order to pay the debts. Hence, in the period under their management, the maturity period of the debt structure is reduced when the company can increase its profits.

One of the sources of the government is collecting taxes from companies. Empirical evidence shows that companies try to reduce or postpone their income taxes. Tax avoidance is one of the tools that companies may use to reduce taxes when necessary. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of managers' narcissism on tax avoidance. For this purpose, the data related to the companies accepted in the Tehran Stock Exchange for the ten-year period between 1392 and 1401 were extracted for 95 companies and the statistical software Eviews 8 was used. The current research is an applied research from the aspect of the result. After the statistical analysis, the results of the research hypotheses indicate that managers' narcissism has a positive and significant effect on tax avoidance. This means that as the level of narcissism of managers increases, tax avoidance also increases.

Moral characteristics, including narcissism, have a great impact on managers' actions. Studies show that it is possible that the severity of narcissism has different effects on the corporate social activity. Considering the role of institutional investors' perspectives regarding the company's decisions, some of studies have emphasized the impact of ownership of institutional investors on corporate social activity. The purpose of this research is to investigate the linear and non-linear relationship between CEO narcissism and corporate social activity with the moderating role of ownership of institutional investors. In the present research, 60 companies admitted to the Tehran Stock Exchange were examined in a period of 7 years. To measure the narcissism of CEO, the results of two criteria (WHR ratio and signature area) have been used. To measure corporate social activity, a checklist including 44 options in six dimensions has been used. The results shows that the CEO narcissism has a negative linear relationship with corporate social activity, and the ownership of institutional investors weakens this negative relationship. Also, there is a significant U-shaped nonlinear relationship between CEO narcissism and corporate social activity, and the ownership of institutional investors widens the curve and weakens the effect of narcissism on corporate social activity at different levels.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the CEO's narcissism has a significant effect on the relationship between the CEO's academic record and cash retention. The statistical population of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange between 1394 and 1399 and using the information of 120 companies and multivariate linear regression method was tested. The test results of the first main hypothesis show that the variable of the CEO's educational background has a significant relationship with cash retention; In other words, the CEO's educational background has a significant effect on cash retention. Also, the results of the first sub-hypothesis indicate that the interactive variable of the CEO's narcissism (CEO photo) * CEO's educational background has a significant relationship with cash retention; And the results of the second sub-hypothesis indicate that the interactive variable of CEO's narcissism (CEO's reward) * CEO's educational background has a significant relationship with cash retention.

In neoclassic economy, it is assumed that decision-makers behave intellectually and always pursue the maximization of their own favorability, but results of several investigations show that in order to find answers to financial questions, we have to accept this probability that behaviors of decision-makers may not be perfectly intellectual. In other words, personality traits of managers are considered factors being important in making decisions. One of such traits is narcissism. Narcissistic personality is associated with signs or indications of sense of superiority, preoccupation with success vagary, power, aesthetic talents, and belief in being an exceptional and unique person. Narcissistic managers are basically willing to achieve great accomplishments within organisations they take over. They tend to do strategically adventuresome operational activities and risky ventures so that decisions made by them can lead to high amounts of profit/ loss at the end of fiscal periods.Present research was done to examine effects of CEO narcissism on the risk of fraud in financial reporting and the moderating roles the auditors and audit committees play regarding the relationship between CEO narcissism and risk of fraud in financial reporting. On this basis, narcissistic managers seeking to reach the best performance are most likely to perform fraudulent activities because measurement of financial performance, which is considered as reflection of decisions made by managers, is a mechanism for managers to be visible and praised. This can be one of factors manifesting narcissism among managers in order to recognize their honor and magnificence.  

In order to study the subject, data on 90 companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange during 2014-2018 was collected by Rah Avard Novin software from financial statements, attached notes and official site of Tehran Stock Exchange to be used to test research hypotheses based on logistic regressions.  

Findings of present research showed a significantly positive relationship between CEO narcissism and risk of fraud in financial reporting. Findings also signified some moderating effect for efforts made by auditors and for proficiency of auditors and of audit committees' chairmen on the relationship between CEO narcissism and risk of fraud in financial reporting.

As a CEO's personality trait, narcissism may increase likelihood of the risk of fraud in financial reporting. As a part of corporate governance mechanisms, recruitment of diligent and Expert auditors as well as audit committees specialized in finance and accounting can be an obstacle to the fraudulent financial reporting caused by CEO narcissism.

Nowadays it is proved that organizations’ success would be achieved through respect to the ethical value, people, society, and environment. On the other hand, narcissism which is considered as a personality structure could affect the managers’ judgement and decision making of various probability. According to the recent studies, narcissism plays a vital role on doing the corporate social responsibilities activities among the managers. In this regard, the main goal of this research is to empirical study of the moderating role of managers’ narcissism on the relationship between social responsibilities and financial performance of 54 listed companies of Tehran Stock Exchange during 2004 to 2015. Thus, by using structural equation modeling (path analysis) as statistical analysis, results showed that there is a there is a significant and positive relationship between managers’ narcissism, social responsibilities and financial performance. Moreover, the results suggested a significant and positive relationship between social responsibilities and financial performance. Besides, the moderating role of managers’ narcissism in explaining the relationship between social responsibilities and financial performance was confirmed

Behavioral attitude of management has led to choosing strategy by managers in order to achieving organization targets and improving its performance, however with including sentiments and behavioral anomaly in decision making, the rationality of managers will be on doubt. In this regard, the aim of this article is empirical investigation of the effects of manager's narcissism (as one of the behavioral bias) on their attitude in choosing strategy for a sample of 54 companies in Tehran Stock Exchange, over a period from 2004 to 2015 (648 firm-years). In order to testing the hypotheses, some of the statistical methods, including ANOVA, Tukey test, LSD and pooling regression are used. The results of this study indicate that there is a statistical difference between manager's narcissism of the samples with different business strategies (prospectors, defenders, and analyzers), and the highest influence of manager's narcissism is on the defender strategy and the lowest influence is on the analyzer strategy. In addition, there is a relationship between manager's narcissism and business strategies (prospectors, defenders, and analyzers) and this relationship for the defender and analyzer strategies is negative and for prospector strategy is positive. This study can be desirable and useful in introducing narcissism at organizational level and species cognition of the strategies with respect to mentioned variables.

Narcissism as a personality characteristic has some indications such as influence of personal wishes, requesting others to answer, and cognitive bias. Narcissism of managers may have some effects on organizational consequences through the impact on managers` decisions in different fields such as strategy, structure and recruitment. Obviously, narcissism compared with other personal characteristics make managers do activities in order to seek the attention of others that subsequently affects the performance of the organization. According to recent studies, it is argued that narcissism has a vital role in earnings management activities and ideal financial performance exhibition. In this respect, the main goal of this research is to conduct an empirical study of the impact of managers’ narcissism on earnings management and financial performance of listed companies of Tehran Stock Exchange.
Research Questions or hypotheses: The research hypotheses are as follows:First main hypothesis: CEO Narcissism has a significant positive effect on earning management.
First subsidiary hypothesis: CEO narcissism has a significant positive effect on discretionary revenues.
Second subsidiary hypothesis: CEO narcissism has a significant positive effect on discretionary accruals.
Second main hypothesis: CEO narcissism has a significant positive effect on financial performance.
First subsidiary hypothesis: CEO narcissism has a significant positive effect on ROA ratio.
Second subsidiary hypothesis: CEO narcissism has a significant positive effect on PEG ratio.
This study is an ex-post research with a quasi-experimental design. The sample consists of 52 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2004-2015. SPSS software, structure equation modelling (SEM), and Image J were used for preparing the data and statistical analysis, respectively.
Statistical analysis using structural equation techniques shows that there is a significant positive relation between managers’ narcissism and earnings management and financial performance indicators. In other words, it was seen that in giving ideal financial performance declaration to stakeholder, more narcissism in managers leads to more tendency to earnings management.