James Bond Chief Executive Officer and Firm Internationalization:

By integrating upper echelon perspective (UEP), dynamic capability view (DCV) and international entrepreneurship (IE) literature, a conceptual model is developed to illustrate how the interaction between Chief Executive Officer (CEO) dark personality traits (narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) and firm-level factors including entrepreneurial orientation (EO), opportunity exploration and opportunity exploitation may influence the firm internationalization. The interaction between these variables can stimulate firm internationalization activities, potentially resulting in following an early and accelerated internationalization (Born-Global) rather than traditional internationalization (e.g., Uppsala model) by firms run by CEOs high in dark personality traits.