I'm simply the best, better than all the rest: narcissistic leaders and corporate fundraising success

Dritjon Gruda; Jim McCleskey; Dimitra Karanatsiou; Athena Vakali

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110317

I'm simply the best, better than all the rest: narcissistic leaders and corporate fundraising success

Dritjon Gruda^*, Jim McCleskey, Dimitra Karanatsiou, Athena Vakali

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Abstract

We examine the relationship between leader grandiose narcissism, composed of admiration and rivalry, and corporate fundraising success in a sample of 2377 organizational leaders. To examine a large sample of leaders, we applied a machine-learning algorithm to predict leaders' personality scores based on leaders' Twitter profiles. We found that admiration was positively related to - while rivalry was negatively related to corporate fundraising success (in '000s). Analyses also showed that leader gender does not moderate this relationship, unlike initially expected. We discuss and compare our findings to previous work on narcissism and crowdfunding.

Original language	English
Article number	110317
Number of pages	6
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	168
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110317
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Fundraising
Leadership
Narcissism
Personality

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