Detecting linguistic traces of destructive narcissism at-a-distance in a CEO’s letter to shareholders

Russell Craig; J. Amernic

doi:10.1007/s10551-011-0738-8

Detecting linguistic traces of destructive narcissism at-a-distance in a CEO’s letter to shareholders

Russell Craig, J. Amernic

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Abstract

Destructive narcissism is recognized increasingly as a serious impairment to good corporate leadership and ethical conduct. The Chief Executive Officer’s letter to shareholders (an important formal corporate communications medium) has potential to provide linguistic traces of destructive narcissism and insight to aspects of corporate leadership and the ambient ethical culture of a company. We demonstrate this potential through selective analyses of the letters of the Chief Executive Officers of Enron, Starbucks, and General Motors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	563-575
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Business Ethics
Volume	101
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-0738-8
Publication status	Published - Jul 2011

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Detecting linguistic traces of destructive narcissism at-a-distance in a CEO’s letter to shareholders

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