Artikel

Negative word of mouth on social media: A case study of Deutsche Bahn's accountability management

Our study addresses whether a chief executive officer's (CEO) personality can mitigate financial constraints' negative effect on employee satisfaction. We draw on extant research that establishes this negative effect but add an upper echelon's perspective by examining the potential influence of the CEO's personality traits. Using a multi-source dataset of 1516 observations of S&P 500 firms, novel measures of employee satisfaction based on Glassdoor reviews, and a machine-learning-based linguistic tool on the Five-Factor Model's personality traits, our study reveals that a CEO who has a high level of openness to experience and/or a low level of conscientiousness buffers the negative impact of financial constraints on employee satisfaction. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR) ; ISSN: 2366-6153 ; Volume: 75 ; Year: 2023 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 99-117

Classification
Management
Marketing and Advertising: General
Social Innovation
Subject
Negative Word-of-Mouth
Accountability
Social Media
Twitter

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Mirbabaie, Milad
Stieglitz, Stefan
Marx, Julian
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Springer
(where)
Heidelberg
(when)
2023

DOI
doi:10.1007/s41471-022-00152-w
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Object type

  • Artikel

Associated

  • Mirbabaie, Milad
  • Stieglitz, Stefan
  • Marx, Julian
  • Springer

Time of origin

  • 2023

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