{"title":"Is Executive Hubris Manifested in CEO Letters to Shareholders?","authors":"M. Devlin, B. Lucey","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2833919","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We examine the extent and evolution of Hubris in a bank CEO, through textual analysis of the CEO letter to the Shareholders. Drawing on new developments in clinical psychology we surface evidence of overconfidence, narcissism and hubris over the 2000-2008 period.","PeriodicalId":448402,"journal":{"name":"Corporate Governance & Sociology or Psychology eJournal","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Corporate Governance & Sociology or Psychology eJournal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2833919","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We examine the extent and evolution of Hubris in a bank CEO, through textual analysis of the CEO letter to the Shareholders. Drawing on new developments in clinical psychology we surface evidence of overconfidence, narcissism and hubris over the 2000-2008 period.