Firms recruit 'dark' personalities for earnings management

Companies could be hiring that bad boss on purpose. According to new research in the Journal of Business Ethics, the ‘dark’ personality traits—questionable ethical standards, narcissistic tendencies—that make a boss bad also make that person much more likely to go along with manipulating earnings and may be the reason they got the job in the first place.


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Source: Phys.org