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) |
|---|---|
| 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