Managing strategic change: The duality of CEO personality
基于厄瓜多尔120家中小企业数据，研究CEO大五人格特质在发起战略变革和影响变革实施绩效中的不同作用，发现尽责性等特质在两者中作用相反。
Using the five factor model ( FFM ) of personality, we delineate two distinct roles of CEO personality in managing strategic change: initiating strategic change and determining the performance effects of strategic change implementation. Based on data from 120 small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises ( SMEs ) in Ecuador, we found that some FFM traits of CEOs influenced initiation only (extraversion and openness), others similarly influenced initiation and performance effects of implementation (emotional stability and agreeableness), and still others had opposing effects on initiation and effective implementation (conscientiousness). These results point to a dual role of CEO FFM of personality in managing strategic change, and they indicate the differences in CEO FFM traits needed to initiate strategic change and those needed to improve the performance effects of strategic change implementation . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.