Abstract
We explore impression and earnings management via reasoning and methods grounded in ethnostatistics and agency theory. We hypothesized that earnings management occurs more frequently following duality-creating successions than otherwise because CEO-chairs have greater control of the impressions created by their firms' financial reports and are operating under greater expectations of positive results. Using a sample of 173 duality-creating succession announcements and 112 non-duality-creating succession announcements, we obtained empirical results consistent with these predictions.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 267-275 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Academy of Management Journal |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Business and International Management
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- Strategy and Management
- Management of Technology and Innovation