Earnings management following duality-creating successions: Ethnostatistics, impression management, and agency theory

Wallace N. Davidson, Pornsit Jiraporn, Young Sang Kim, Carol Nemec

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)267-275
Number of pages9
JournalAcademy of Management Journal
Volume47
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 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

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