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Effect of the auditor’s behavioral and individual characteristics on integrated reporting quality: evidence from European companies

Jamel Chouaibi (Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax, Research Laboratory of Information Technologies, Governance and Entrepreneurship (LARTIGE) University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Abir Hichri (Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax, Research Laboratory of Information Technologies, Governance and Entrepreneurship (LARTIGE) University of Sfax, Tunisia)

International Journal of Law and Management

ISSN: 1754-243X

Publication date: 23 October 2020

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to consist in examining the effect of the auditor’s behavioral and individual characteristics on the integrated reporting quality, in regard to a sample involving 130 European industrial companies, relevant to the year 2017.

Design/methodology/approach

The present study’s adopted methodology rests on the hypothetico-deductive approach. The relevant data applied are analyzed by means of multiple linear regression models.

Findings

The reached results prove to indicate well that both auditor specialization and auditor ethics factors appear to have a significantly positive effect on the integrated reporting quality. Noteworthy, also, is the fact that the audit firm size and auditor behavior have been discovered to have a positive and insignificant effect on the integrated reporting related quality.

Originality/value

Faced with the scarcity of studies linking the auditor characteristics and the integrated reporting quality, the present study is elaborated to provide some kind of modest contribution, whereby, the determinants of integrated reporting are distinguishably highlighted

Keywords

  • Integrated reporting
  • Audit firm size
  • Auditor specialization
  • Auditor ethics
  • Auditor behavior

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Editor and the two anonymous referees of the “International Journal of Law and Management” for their insightful comments that have greatly benefitted the paper.

Citation

Chouaibi, J. and Hichri, A. (2020), "Effect of the auditor’s behavioral and individual characteristics on integrated reporting quality: evidence from European companies", International Journal of Law and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLMA-04-2020-0109

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