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Strategic ChangeABSTRACTOverplacement, a form of overconfidence characterized by the distorted belief that one is better than others, is considered a key driver of nascent entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurship literature typically associates entrepreneurial overplacement with negative outcomes and attributes it to erroneous information processing.
Zsófia Vörös +2 more
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The dark side of leadership: A systematic review of creativity and innovation
International Journal of Management Reviews, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 740-767, October 2023., 2023 Abstract It is believed that workplace creativity and innovation are fostered by positive leader behaviors and positive workplace relationships and hindered by the opposite. However, some challenge this view and argue that creativity and innovation can also be fostered when employees experience what is increasingly referred to as “the dark side of ...
Vahid Mehraein +2 more
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Green Supply Chain Decisions and Revenue‐Sharing Contracts under Manufacturers’ Overconfidence
Journal of Mathematics, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Overconfidence is a prevalent and potentially catastrophic behaviour in judgment and decision‐making. In this paper, we define manufacturers’ overconfidence as a belief bias that they overestimate the impact of product greenness on demand and the accuracy of demand uncertainty.
Hui Zhou +4 more
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Complexity, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 The rapid development of online social media has significantly promoted product diffusion in online social networks (PDOSN). However, prior studies focusing on irrational behavior, such as overconfidence, in PDOSN are scarce. To investigate the effect of overconfidence on PDOSN, this study combined overconfidence and an evolutionary game to conduct a ...
Xiaochao Wei +4 more
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The forms of financial literacy overconfidence and their role in financial well‐being
International Journal of Consumer Studies, Volume 45, Issue 6, Page 1292-1308, November 2021., 2021 Abstract Overconfidence in financial literacy (FL) is defined and assessed in various ways, and results regarding the effects of FL overconfidence on financial well‐being are inconsistent. Therefore, this study aims to develop our understanding of the processes by which overconfidence in FL influences the financial well‐being of consumers; that is to ...
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Does having insurance change individuals' self‐confidence?
Journal of Risk and Insurance, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 429-442, June 2021., 2021 Abstract Recent research in contract theory on the effects of behavioral biases implicitly assumes that they are stable, in the sense of not being affected by the contracts themselves. In this paper, we provide evidence that this is not necessarily the case.
Raphael Guber +2 more
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Biased interpretation of performance feedback: The role of CEO overconfidence
Strategic Management Journal, Volume 41, Issue 6, Page 1139-1165, June 2020., 2020 Abstract Research summary This study examines how managerial biases in the form of overconfidence change the interpretation of performance feedback and, consequently, shape a firm's risk taking in response to it. Our formal analysis suggests that CEO overconfidence is associated with a lower willingness to increase firm risk taking when facing negative
Christian Schumacher +2 more
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Managerial Overoptimism and Discretionary Disclosure
Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the effect of managerial overoptimism on discretionary disclosure of subjective information, such as earnings forecasts. The market applies a discount upon disclosure to capture the possibility that the revealed subjective expectation is too optimistic.
Nikolaj Niebuhr Lambertsen +1 more
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Two Tales of Uncertainty: Calibrating Overprecision With Self‐Regulated Entrepreneurial Learning
Strategic Change, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 273-285, March 2026.ABSTRACT Entrepreneurial success strongly depends on decision‐making under uncertainty. Uncertainty is particularly pronounced when entrepreneurs are confronted with novel situations characterized by an absence of information. While cognitive biases, such as overprecision, can have a negative impact on decision‐making processes by distorting ...
Julian Kolbe +2 more
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How Does Overconfidence Affect Decision Making of the Green Product Manufacturer?
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 Overconfidence is a universal and prevalent cognitive bias affecting decision making in operation management. In this paper, overconfidence is defined as a cognitive bias in which decision makers overestimate the accuracy of demand forecasting or (and) the demand itself. We call these two behaviors overprecision and overestimation, respectively.
Jian Liu +4 more
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