Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
4-2021
Abstract
This paper is the first to investigate the role of work-life balance in financial analysts' performance and career advancement. Using a large sample of Glassdoor reviews by financial analysts, we find a significant non-linear relation between perceived work-life balance and analyst performance and analyst career advancement. Specifically, when perceived work-life balance is relatively low, an increase in work-life balance is associated with better analyst performance and career advancement; however, when perceived work-life balance is already high, a further increase in work-life balance is associated with worse analyst performance and career advancement.
Keywords
Analysts, Work-life balance, Job satisfaction, Performance, Promotion, Labor market, Social media, Glassdoor, All-star
Discipline
Accounting | Finance and Financial Management
Research Areas
Corporate Reporting and Disclosure
Publication
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Volume
90
First Page
1
Last Page
21
ISSN
0361-3682
Identifier
10.1016/j.aos.2020.101199
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
HOPE, Ole-Kristian; LI, Congcong; LIN, An-Ping; and RABIER, MaryJane.
Happy analysts. (2021). Accounting, Organizations and Society. 90, 1-21.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1959
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2020.101199