Are overconfident CEOs born or made? asks Management Insights study / EurekAlert, 11 June 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/ifor-aoc061108.php
"A study of CEO's finds that many overestimate their own negotiating skills and overlook the element of luck in successful mergers, acquisitions, and other deals, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences."
Are Overconfident CEOs Born or Made? Evidence of Self-Attribution Bias from Frequent Acquirers
Management Science, Vol 54, No 6, June 2008, p iv
PDF - http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/reprint/54/6/iv
Matthew T. Billett, Yiming Qian
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