@article{BounckenCesingerTiberius2020, author = {Bouncken, Ricarda B. and Cesinger, Beate and Tiberius, Victor}, title = {Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy of top managers}, series = {International journal of entrepreneurial venturing}, volume = {12}, journal = {International journal of entrepreneurial venturing}, number = {3}, publisher = {Inderscience Enterprises}, address = {Geneva}, issn = {1742-5360}, doi = {10.1504/ijev.2020.107932}, pages = {273 -- 302}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Numerous studies show that high levels of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) in firms positively influence firm performance. Yet, high levels of Dark Triad (DT) traits - narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy - of managers might work detrimental to EO. Our study empirically tests if top managers who score high on Dark Triad traits have a negative influence on firm performance, reducing the merits of EO. Results of a survey study on 191 firms show that all three dimensions of the DT, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, suppress the positive effects that EO has on firm performance. Accordingly, selfish behaviour, emotional coldness, propensity for duplicity, and top managers' quest for self promotion, status, and dominance lead to behaviour that reduces the positive influences around innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking of EO.}, language = {en} } @article{BondueBirke2021, author = {Bond{\"u}, Rebecca and Birke, Joseph}, title = {Links between aggressive sexual fantasies and presumably non-consensual aggressive sexual behavior when controlling for BDSM identity}, series = {International journal of conflict and violence}, volume = {14}, journal = {International journal of conflict and violence}, number = {1}, publisher = {Inst. for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Univ. of Bielefeld}, address = {Bielefeld}, issn = {1864-1385}, doi = {10.4119/ijcv-3777}, pages = {17}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Recent research provides evidence that aggressive sexual fantasies predict aggressive sexual behavior in the general population. However, sexual fantasies including fantasies about the infliction of pain and humiliation, should be frequent and often consensually acted upon among individuals with sadomasochistic likings. The question arises whether sexual fantasies with aggressive content still predict presumably non-consensual aggressive sexual behavior in individuals with sadomasochistic likings, given that BDSM encounters are generally considered consensual. To investigate this question, we conducted a questionnaire survey of sexual fantasies, as sessing the frequency of seventy sexual fantasies involving non-aggressive, masochistic, and aggressive acts. Our sample (N = 182) contained 99 respondents who self-identified as sadist, masochist, or switcher; 44 reported no such identification. For respondents reporting BDSM identification, we replicated a factor structure for sexual fantasies similar to that previously found in the general population, including three factors reflecting fantasies about increasingly severe aggressive sexual acts. Fantasies about injuring a partner and/or using weapons and fantasies about sexual coercion predicted presumably non-consensual sexual behavior independently of other risk factors for aggressive sexual behavior and irrespective of BDSM identification. Hence, severely aggressive sexual fantasies may predispose to presumably non-consensual sexual behavior in both individuals with and without BDSM identification.}, language = {en} }