Executive Confidence: A Multidisciplinary Review, Synthesis, and Agenda for Future Research

Over the past two decades, scholars of management, finance, accounting, economics, and entrepreneurship have studied the concept and implications of executive confidence in diverse settings. Despite sustained scholarly attention, numerous definitions, interpretations, and operationalizations of exec...

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Published in:Journal of management Vol. 48; no. 6; pp. 1430 - 1468
Main Authors: Heavey, Ciaran, Simsek, Zeki, Fox, Brian Curtis, Hersel, Matt C.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2022
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Concept formation
Confidence
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Future
Governance
Literature
Methodological problems
executive confidence
CEO decision-making
top management teams
executive overconfidence
strategic leadership
upper echelons
ISSN:0149-2063, 1557-1211
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Summary:Over the past two decades, scholars of management, finance, accounting, economics, and entrepreneurship have studied the concept and implications of executive confidence in diverse settings. Despite sustained scholarly attention, numerous definitions, interpretations, and operationalizations of executive confidence present a problem for understanding past research and informing future progress. Equally problematic is that past research remains scattered across multiple disciplines, lacking a cohesive and comprehensive integration. Based on an in-depth review of 118 executive confidence studies and 268 studies in the wider confidence literature, we marshal the literature into four overarching themes for an encompassing understanding: (i) conceptualization of executive confidence, (ii) governance mechanisms and pathways of influence, (iii) implications and outcomes, and (iv) origins and antecedents. We leverage the insights of our review to discuss a richer conceptualization of executive confidence and chart an agenda for future research across each of the four themes of our review.
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ISSN:0149-2063
1557-1211
DOI:10.1177/01492063211062566