Open AccessThat Could Have Been Me: Director Deaths, CEO Mortality Salience, and Corporate Prosocial Behavior
Author(s) -
Guoli Chen,
Craig Crossland,
Sterling Huang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
management science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.954
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1526-5501
pISSN - 0025-1909
DOI - 10.1287/mnsc.2019.3348
Subject(s) - prosocial behavior , mortality salience , chief executive officer , salience (neuroscience) , psychology , social psychology , corporate social responsibility , terror management theory , public relations , management , political science , economics , cognitive psychology
Mortality salience—the awareness of the inevitability of death—is often traumatic. However, it can also be associated with a range of positive, self-transcendent cognitive responses, such as a grea...
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