About this Research Topic
The traits of senior executives are important factors affecting decision-making and corporate behavior. The measurement is mainly divided into two categories: psychological factors, such as values, self-confidence, cognition, and personality, and observable background experiences, such as age, gender, education level, and professional experiences. Individuals do not always make rational decisions, while environmental information is large, complex, and vague. Therefore, when making complex decisions, individual cognition, preference, values, personality, and other psychological characteristics, as well as the past experience of executives, have a great impact on behavioral choices. These traits, to a large extent, determine their vision, choice perception, and interpretation of information, and ultimately affect decision-making and behavior.
In recent years, psychological and sociological studies have noted that senior executives' social capital has an impact on corporate behavior. The social capital of senior executives provides them with various information, shapes their views on the environment, and provides a reference for their behavior choices. Therefore, the scholars suggested expanding the measurement of executives' characteristics and including their social capital in the study. Scholars have attached great importance to the impact of social capital, especially political capital, on enterprises from the beginning of their research on Chinese enterprises and executives. They believe that political capital can make up for the lack of a market system, bring institutional protection and resource support to enterprises, and is conducive to enterprise performance.
Social capital does not play the same role in all environments. Social capital plays a role in the institutional system that includes regulatory structure, government departments, laws, courts, etc. It can be either formal rules or informal constraints. According to the theory of institutional economics, the institutional system determines the legitimacy of behavior. The pressure for legitimacy forces the organization to comply with the requirements of the system, otherwise, the enterprise will lose its resources for existence and development. According to this logic, scholars hold that the system determines the organization's behavior, while the influence of managers on the organization's behavior is limited by the system. Therefore, different organizations may face different institutional constraints, and the roles of managers will be different. This Research Topic hopes that scholars will conduct theoretical and empirical research on the impact of corporate executives' social capital on corporate behavior under different institutional backgrounds from the perspective of psychology, sociology, politics, economics, and management, so as to enrich the literature and deepen the research in this field.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• The psychological factors of senior executives and decision-making；
• The traits of senior executives and organizational behavior;
• Past experience of executives and corporate behavior;
• Executives' social capital and organizational decision-making;
• The relationship between the political capital and corporate behavior;
• The impact of social capital on corporate behavior under different institutional backgrounds.
In recent years, psychological and sociological studies have noted that senior executives' social capital has an impact on corporate behavior. The social capital of senior executives provides them with various information, shapes their views on the environment, and provides a reference for their behavior choices. Therefore, the scholars suggested expanding the measurement of executives' characteristics and including their social capital in the study. Scholars have attached great importance to the impact of social capital, especially political capital, on enterprises from the beginning of their research on Chinese enterprises and executives. They believe that political capital can make up for the lack of a market system, bring institutional protection and resource support to enterprises, and is conducive to enterprise performance.
Social capital does not play the same role in all environments. Social capital plays a role in the institutional system that includes regulatory structure, government departments, laws, courts, etc. It can be either formal rules or informal constraints. According to the theory of institutional economics, the institutional system determines the legitimacy of behavior. The pressure for legitimacy forces the organization to comply with the requirements of the system, otherwise, the enterprise will lose its resources for existence and development. According to this logic, scholars hold that the system determines the organization's behavior, while the influence of managers on the organization's behavior is limited by the system. Therefore, different organizations may face different institutional constraints, and the roles of managers will be different. This Research Topic hopes that scholars will conduct theoretical and empirical research on the impact of corporate executives' social capital on corporate behavior under different institutional backgrounds from the perspective of psychology, sociology, politics, economics, and management, so as to enrich the literature and deepen the research in this field.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• The psychological factors of senior executives and decision-making；
• The traits of senior executives and organizational behavior;
• Past experience of executives and corporate behavior;
• Executives' social capital and organizational decision-making;
• The relationship between the political capital and corporate behavior;
• The impact of social capital on corporate behavior under different institutional backgrounds.
Keywords: Social Capital, Senior Executive, Organizational Decision-making, Political Capital, Corporate Behavior
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