Narcissistic Leadership and Project Success: The Role of Knowledge Sharing and Collectivism in IT Firms

Abstract

In the quest of exploring specific developments in contemporary management research, this study highlights the prevalence of narcissistic leadership in IT firms. We employed the upper-echelon framework to analyze the impact of narcissistic leadership on project success. This study considered the dark side of a leader’s narcissism while analyzing how narcissistic leadership affects a project’s success through knowledge sharing and collectivism.

Keywords

• narcissistic leadership
• project success
• knowledge sharing
• collectivism