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dysfunctional, antisocial, and sometimes criminal, characterised by disregard
towards other individuals and their well-being and by actions that are callous
and insensitive (Kowalski, 2001; Lee & Ashton, 2005).
Scholars in the management field have investigated how these dark traits
impact organisations (Hmieleski & Lerner, 2016; Sendjaya et al., 2016). For
example, Chatterjee and Hambrick (2007) investigated the role of CEO nar-
cissism on performance in their analysis of the computer and software indus-
tries. Their results point to several eects that this trait may trigger in terms
of organisational change, dynamism, and the tendency to engage in growth
strategies, yet they report no significant dierence ...