Guided by the premise that a company’s strategy is a human construction and organizations become reflections of their top managers, I am studying executive narcissism as a formal construct for explaining firm strategy and performance. The concept of narcissism opens the way for an array of new insights about  strategic decision-making, top management team dynamics, organization design, executive compensation, and executive celebrity.             

I am also interested in studying the role of culture on entrepreneurial behavior, founding teams, emotions, and the psychology of competition.

Publications

Chatterjee, A. and Donald C. Hambrick. 2007. It’s all about me: Narcissistic CEOs and their effects on company strategy and performance. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52: 351-386.

Conference presentations

Chatterjee, A. 2008. Narcissism in CEOs: The Psychology of Positive Self-Regard and Implications for Executive Behavior. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California.

Chatterjee, A. & Donald C. Hambrick. 2008. Where does CEO Hubris come from? The Interacting Effects of Narcissism and Confidence-Influencing Cues. Paper presented in a joint BPS, OB, and OMT Division Symposium entitled “Opening the Black Box: Burgeoning Research on Social, Political, and Psychological Processes inside Boards and TMTs” at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California.

Chatterjee, A. 2007, August. Emotions and Economics. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Chatterjee, A. and Donald C. Hambrick. 2007, August. Measuring Narcissism in CEOs: Validation of an Unobtrusive Index of Executive Personality. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Chatterjee, A. and Donald C. Hambrick. 2006, August. The Narcissistic CEO: An Exploratory Study of Indicators and Strategic Consequences. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia.

Chatterjee, A. 2005, August. Flow in teams. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Chatterjee, A. 2005, August. The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds. Paper presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management,Honolulu, Hawaii.

Working papers

Chatterjee, A.   Collective Tenacity in Founding Teams: Linking Intrinsic Motivations to Markets

Chatterjee, A.   Discovery or Creation? Patterns in Technology Start-ups by America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs
 
Chatterjee, A.   Pursuit of Passions: Towards a Research Program on Emotions  
(With Dan Chiaburu)

Chatterjee, A.   Fragmentation in Small Worlds: Network Evolution in an Academic Community
(With Wenpin Tsai, Martin Kilduff and Philipp Tuertscher)

Professional activities

Reviewer for the Academy of Management’s BPS and OMT divisions (2006-present)
Ad hoc Reviewer for Administrative Science Quarterly (2007-present)
Reviewer for International Journal of Management Research (2006- present)

Association membership

Academy of Management’s BPS and RM divisions
Strategic Management Society