SELF-REPORTS AND CEO LOCUS OF CONTROL RESEARCH - A NOTE

The body of knowledge in organizational and management research is bas ed, to a large extent, on same-source self-report data. Although sever al scholars seriously doubt the validity of such findings, this method ology has also been used, without exception, in a specific research ar ea focusing on the relationship between the locus of control of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and firm-level entrepreneurship. In the pres ent study, we try to evaluate the validity of these findings by using multiple sources (i.e., respondents) to obtain data on the independent and criterion variables. We present empirical evidence that the publi shed correlations between the CEO locus of control and firm-level entr epreneurship cannot be interpreted unambiguously due to two, not neces sarily mutually exclusive, methodological problems, that is: (1) a fal lacy of the wrong level and (2) common method variance.