Earnings Management Following Duality-Creating Successions: Ethnostatistics, Impression Management and Agency Theory

Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 47, April 2004

Posted: 16 Feb 2005

See all articles by Wallace N. Davidson

Wallace N. Davidson

Southern Illinois University - Department of Finance

Pornsit Jiraporn

Pennsylvania State University - School of Graduate Professional Studies (SGPS)

Young Sang Kim

Northern Kentucky University - Haile/US Bank College of Business

Carol Nemec

Southern Oregon University - School of Business

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Abstract

Impression and earnings management were explored 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.

Keywords: Earnings management, duality, agency theory

JEL Classification: G30, G34

Suggested Citation

Davidson, Wallace N. and Jiraporn, Pornsit and Kim, Young Sang and Nemec, Carol, Earnings Management Following Duality-Creating Successions: Ethnostatistics, Impression Management and Agency Theory. Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 47, April 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=628341

Wallace N. Davidson

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Carol Nemec

Southern Oregon University - School of Business ( email )

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