Open AccessDoes CEO Emotional Intelligence Affect the Performance of the Company's Research and Development
Author(s) -
Mohamed Ali Azouzi,
Ferdaws Ezzi,
Anis Jarboui
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
applied finance letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2253-5802
pISSN - 2253-5799
DOI - 10.24135/afl.v5i1.51
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , emotional intelligence , investment (military) , psychology , business , quantitative research , accounting , social psychology , political science , sociology , communication , politics , law , anthropology
This paper, using qualitative and quantitative data, investigates how behavioral aspects of managers (measured by emotional intelligence) impact performance of innovative companies (measured by high investment in research and development). The results obtained clearly show, for these companies, there is a significant and positive relationship between CEO emotional intelligent and their financial, social and environmental performance.