Article
Executive Job Demands and Innovation: Exploring the Role of CEO Emotions
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
(2022)
Abstract
Our study explores how Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs) job demands and emotions influence innovation. Drawing on upper echelons theory and research on emotions, we propose that CEOs’ perceptions of job difficulty can hurt firm innovation through CEOs’ experience of negative emotional reactions. Additionally, we explore how CEOs with higher levels of emotional intelligence can mitigate how perceptions of job demands translate into negative emotional reactions. We test our predictions in a sample of CEOs and top management team members from 120 small- and medium-sized enterprises. We find that CEO job demands are positively associated with CEOs’ negative emotional reactions, which in turn have negative implications for firm innovation. We also find that two dimensions of emotional intelligence (self-appraisal and regulation) weaken the influence of CEO job demands on negative emotional reactions. Our research contributes to strategic leadership research by studying the organizational implications of executive job demands and CEO emotions.
Publication Date
2022
DOI
10.5465/AMBPP.2022.11474abstract
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Citation Information
Andres Felipe Cortes. "Executive Job Demands and Innovation: Exploring the Role of CEO Emotions" Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andres-cortes/21/