Executive Confidence: A Multidisciplinary Review, Synthesis, and Agenda for Future Research

Over the past two decades, scholars of management, finance, accounting, economics, and entrepreneurship have studied concept implications executive confidence in diverse settings. Despite sustained scholarly attention, numerous definitions, interpretations, operationalizations present a problem for understanding research informing future progress. Equally problematic is that remains scattered across multiple disciplines, lacking cohesive comprehensive integration. Based on an in-depth review 118 studies 268 wider literature, we marshal literature into four overarching themes encompassing understanding: (i) conceptualization confidence, (ii) governance mechanisms pathways influence, (iii) outcomes, (iv) origins antecedents. We leverage insights our to discuss richer chart agenda each review.