RT Article
T1 Are employees safer when the CEO looks greedy?
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 198
IS 3
SP 655
OP 673
A1 O'Sullivan, Don
A1 Zolotoy, Leon
A1 Veeraraghavan, Madhu
A1 Overbeck, Jennifer R.
A2 Zolotoy, Leon
A2 Veeraraghavan, Madhu
A2 Overbeck, Jennifer R.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1925245993
AB In this study, we explore the relationship between perceived CEO greed and workplace safety. Drawing on insights from the social psychology literature, we theorize that CEOs are cognizant that their perceived greed has implications for how observers respond to failures in workplace safety. Our theorizing points to a somewhat counterintuitive positive relationship between perceived CEO greed and workplace safety. Consistent with our theorizing, we find that the relationship is attenuated when the CEO is insulated from how observers respond to firm conduct and is amplified when the CEO’s characteristics have a larger impact on how observers respond to adverse firm-level events. We contribute to business ethics research on executive greed, on the relationship between CEO traits and (ir)responsible corporate conduct, and on the antecedents of workplace safety.
K1 CEO greed
K1 Reflexivity
K1 Upper echelons
K1 workplace safety
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-024-05820-x