That could have been me: Director deaths, mortality salience and CEO prosocial behavior

• Main Authors: CHEN, Guoli, CROSSLAND, Craig, HUANG, Sterling
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Decision making; leadership; strategy; behaviour; Corporate Finance; Human Resources Management; Leadership Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1833; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2860/viewcontent/That_could_have_been_me_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 greater desire to help others, contribute to society, and make a more meaningful contribution in one’s life...