Signatures were fed into a custom coded computer program which drew a rectangle around each of them and measured the area they covered.
'We standardized the measure by dividing the area by the number letters in the CEO's signature,' Professor Wang said.
Professor Wang said he and his co-authors relied on findings from previous psychological studies which claimed that bigger signatures mean bigger egos.
Using the size of the signature as a proxy for the writers' narcissism, they found that narcissistic CEOs invest more in capital expenditures and acquisitions but pay lower dividends, with overinvestments being largest in magnitude when financial slack is high.
一项新研究称,一个首席执行官的签名写得越大,他(她)是自恋狂的可能性越大。
该研究将605名美国公司的首席执行官的签名放在一起作比较,发现他们的签名大小确实关系重大。
研究发现,签名更大字的上司通常能得到最高的薪水,但事实上也更可能把公司搞垮。
北卡罗莱纳大学克南-弗拉格勒学院的学者的这项研究所采集的首席执行官签名来自他们提交到美国证券交易委员会的公司账目。
研究作者将自恋定义为“带有自负和漠视他人的”一种自我中心的性格特质。
他们在论文中写道:“同样,自恋会造成自我认知的偏差,具体表现形式是对个人自身能力和表现会有偏高的评价。”
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